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Today is Juneteenth and we want to start with a few of our favorite links to educate and inspire you about this important day in history.

Embracing Juneteenth: A Journey with Professor Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. of Princeton University's Department of African American Studies

Why is Juneteenth Important? by three curators the National Museum of African American History and Culture: Mary Elliot, Curator of American slavery, and emancipation; Angela Tate, Museum Curator of African American women's history; and Kelly E. Navies, Museum Specialist of Oral history.  

Juneteenth: Knowing our history by Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO of the Children's Defense Fund

We also have more of our Favorite Things to share, this morning a guest post from Rev. Dr. Erin Robinson Hall. 

What is your response to our summer series? Are you able to lean into joy and embrace some of your favorite things?

Episode 202: Erin's Favorite Things

Summer time can be very busy for people who have small children at home. 3MMM Team Member Erin Robinson Hall shares this week about how podcasts, treats and an interesting study are all things she enjoys this summer. 

In Atlanta? Join us for this event! 

We are delighted to gather with Baptists at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's General Assembly next week. One highlight is the Dr. Emmanuel McCall Racial Justice Trailblazer Luncheon. 
You don't want to miss hearing from Dr. Otis Moss III and celebrating the 2023 award recipients. We have a few seats available at Eileen's table, so we are giving them away. 

To enter: simply reply to this email here, and tell us how this lunch would inspire your #pastoralimagination. 

Baptists, Football and Women Who Changed the Game

In response to actions taken at the Southern Baptist Convention meeting last week to further limits women’s pastoral leadership in churches, I wrote a piece for Baptist News Global: “Baptists, football and women who changed the game.”

I take up a metaphor from my book Anatomy of a Schism to show how the Southern Baptists fight over issues related to women as if they were a political football. 

"This year’s agenda for the SBC annual meeting in New Orleans was a perfect set-up for another contest over women. They squared off for a battle over churches that have women serving as pastors and how to address the clergy abuse crisis in which the majority of survivors are women. The SBC gathered at the convention center. But they should have met at the Superdome.” 

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