Here is a clean post of all the blogcasts of today’s Worship In The Spirit of Justice. It was such an amazing close to a great five weeks, but I will leave my closing comments and thoughts for another blog post. Enjoy the photos at Flickr and audio files below.
1:05 PM
My opening comments…
1:22 PM
Opening worship, and my beautiful voice!
1:26 PM
More worship…
1:32 PM
Remarks by Muslim Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University (and my intermittent Amens!)
1:56 PM
An inspiring reading of the prophet Micah by seven Jewish high school students, studying in DC for three weeks how their faith applies to issues of social justice.
2:00 PM
First part: another reading of Scripture, this time by a high school student from Cedar Ridge Community Church, Brian McLaren’s church; Second part: the start of the sermon by Rev. Jim Wallis.
2:05 PM
Continuing sermon by Rev. Jim Wallis.
Unfortunately, I’m an idot and accidentally pressed the wrong button and wasn’t able to capture the last 5 minutes of Wallis’ message. GRRR! Luckily, I did make notes…He basically called on President Bush to do three things: 1) help create a multi-national peacekeeping force in conjunction with the African Union, for the specific purpose of protecting the lives of countless innocent civilians; 2) significantly increase humanitarian aide to Sudan in specific and Africa in general; 3) call the nation to pray for, along with us, the people in Sudan.
2:21 PM
Closing part of Rev. Jim Wallis’ message and a moment of response by those attending the activist rally.
2:26 PM
A closing prayer.
2:39 PM
Some closing remarks by Salih Booker, Executive Director of africaaction.org.
2:40 PM
Final instructions before our march toward the White House. This was a very moving time as we concluded our activism together with a march to the front of the White House. Especially moving was the utter silence by the tourists waiting to snap pictures as 400 people prayed together for a few minutes. Very cool!
2:56 PM
My closing comments…
