Sumud — draft outline and links

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• Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-_CBFUiWeQ&t=2s — What is Sumud? (English) | Following the Way of Jesus: A Lenten Holy Land Journey
•  Week 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1c18BvUHA&t=1s — Sumud the Way of Jesus (English) Church of the Annunciation (Nazareth) Ranan Issa Abu Shanab is the Gender Justice Program Manager at ELCJH
• Week 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3r8NJbfQuk — Good News of Great Joy For All People
• Week 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab5USbhGtac — Belovedness in the Wilderness (English) | Rev. Fursan Zu’mot (Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem
• Week 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTU3st6KjOg A Counter Cultural Message (English) | Rev. Ashraf Tannous (Isaiah, Nazareth
• Week 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfqDrL8xM-0 — Things That Make Peace (English) | Rev Sally Azar
• Week 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VLoxjSQEz4 — Journey to the Cross (English) | Rev. Rodny Said, pastor, Hope, Ramallah

Intro: What is Sumud? Following the Way of Jesus: A Lenten Holy Land Journey

• ELCA Sumud website https://www.elca.org/sumud
• Social message on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: Adopted by the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, April 16, 1989 https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Messages/Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict
• Mitri Raheb, “Sailing Through Troubled Waters,” Dialog, Summer 2002 https://palestinianchristians.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Sailing_Through_Troubled_Waters-Mitri-Raheb-1.pdf
• Dahlia Lithwick, “I Didn’t Come Back to Jerusalem To Be in a War,” Slate, Nov. 18, 2012 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/11/israel-gaza-fighting-whats-its-like-to-be-in-jerusalem-as-the-conflict-escalates.html.
• Daniel Seidemann, “This War is Fraught With Historical Trauma,” Foreign Policy, Oct. 18, 2023 https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/18/israel-hamas-war-holocaust-nakba-historical-trauma/
• Antisemitism: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, 2016 https://www.state.gov/defining-antisemitism/.

Week 1: Samud the Way of Jesus (Nazareth / Magnificat)

• Wikipedia: Links to Samud and Palestinian Christians for background.
• Magnificat — Ranan Issa Abu Shanab is the Gender Justice Program Manager at ELCJH
• Mitri Raheb can say his ancestors may have babysat Jesus https://goodgodproject.com/podcast/season8episode6.
• Al Jazeera Why Are Palestinian Christians Leaving Jesus’ Birthplace? [Pt. 1] (12:28) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa6igKc1M9s
• ELCJHL website https://www.elcjhl.org/

Week 2: Good News of Great Joy (Beit Sahour)

• Munther Isaac, Christmas Sermon (17:02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md_hw_A-oIs
• Eric Alterman, “What on Earth Has Happened to the Israeli Peace Movement?” New Republic, May 22, 2024 https://newrepublic.com/article/181775/what-happened-israeli-peace-movement.
• World Council of Churches, Advocacy Outline Advocacy Outline – WCC-EAPPI Easter Initiative 2024 https://www.oikoumene.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/WCC-EAPPI-Advocacy-Outline-2024_layout-full-web.pdf

Week 3: The Wilderness

• Lutheran bishop advocates for “resistance of prayer” amid Palestinian-Israeli violence,v World Council of Churches, 2015 https://www.oikoumene.org/news/lutheran-bishop-advocates-for-resistance-of-prayer-amid-palestinian-israeli-violence 
• WCC Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel https://www.oikoumene.org/what-we-do/eappi
• Michael Oliphant, “10080 Minutes in Paradise — The Ride to Agadir and Other Stories,” EAPPI Report, South African Council of Churches, News, March 28, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20080328234304/http://www.sacc.org.za/news07/oliphant.html

Week 4: Nazareth sermon countercultural [to ‘us’ v ‘them’]

• Rev. Ashraf Tannous, Church of the Reformation, Beit Jala
• Luke 4:18-30 [Jesus’ sermon at Nazareth and Elisha’s healing of  Naaman the Syrian] — ¹⁶ When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, ¹⁷ and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
  ¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
      because he has anointed me
          to bring good news to the poor.
  He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
      and recovery of sight to the blind,
          to set free those who are oppressed,
  ¹⁹ to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
  ²⁰ And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. […]
• Augusta Victoria Hospital https://jerusalem.lutheranworld.org/content/augusta-victoria-hospital-91

Week 5: Things That Make Peace (English) |Rev Sally Azar [Redeemer, Jerusalem]

• Jerusalem: Jesus wept Luke 19:41-42 — praying for things that we know can happen and can happen through us
• Grace Ji-Sun Kim, “Living in Prayer and Hope,” Loving Life, [substack, Oct. 21, 2023] https://gracek.substack.com/p/living-in-prayer-and-hope
• Mitri Raheb, “Bethlehem as the birthplace of Hope,” 2022  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=556762856462065
• Diyar/Bright Stars of Bethlehem (6:36) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIuZzRjGKhc

Week 6: Journey to the Cross

• Munther Isaac, Easter Vigil (22:57) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9nZ6oNSfQU&t=262s
• Mitri Raheb, “Dr. Raheb’s sermon at Duke Chapel: The Cross and the unexpected revelation” https://www.mitriraheb.org/en/article/1487339798 
• Raheb, “Hope Is What We Do Today,” 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yagEfDbO1wg

Pr. Rodny Said, Hope, Ramallah (week 6)

3:28 Today, for us Palestinian Christians, we live in a really difficult time. Our faith is challenged, or it is even shaken.But what keeps us going is the hope that Jesus brings us. So sin and death are not the end. But through faith there is life. 

A Palestinians, we believe that through the cross there is life. We believe that Jesus is suffering with us. Jesus crying out, “Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Jesus is working hard with us, and through us, to end the suffering. Because even when we are tired and can hardly breathe, we hear Jesus whispering to us, “Do not be afraid, because I am with you, so you can continue to be light in the midst of darkness, to plant seeds to love where there is hatred. Through the cross we are strengthened to stand firm in the face of evil and death. Because we are certain that death and sin do not have the final word. But life does. […]