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Sunday Service Archive 2020

Black Feminist Breathing Cards are READY!

Black Feminist Breathing Cards are finally ready for distribution. If you have ever done the Black Feminist Breathing 21 Day Meditation Chorus, you should have received an email from us with details. If not, just log into the course and you’ll see the details there. If you have NOT done the Black Feminist Breathing Course you can sign up for the course here and you’ll automatically get info on how to order your own deck too. The cards are not available as a stand-alone offering for purchase but ONLY as a companion to the Black Feminist Breathing Practice. If you want to get the practice as a gift for a loved one just use the same link and put in their contact info instead of yours (and tell them the password).

Stardust and Salt

Also, sign up here if you want to ground yourself in the wisdom of Fannie Lou Hamer’s effective organizing during election season. And Stardust and Salt Alexis’s 10-day (re)activation of your daily creative practice is also available to you to do any time. Sign up here.

Alexis’s newest book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals is now available wherever books are sold and is an affordable gift for the deep divers in your life. In this image you can see Alexis’s father Clyde Gumbs’s book in the background. You can get his book Without Apology: Poems in Honor of Black Women here.

We invite requests, comments and reflections at each service. Service Notes is where I comment on the notes congregants put in the collection basket.

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Also you get your own beautiful three dolphin pin (inspired by the revolutionary flag of Anguilla designed by Alexis’s grandmother Lydia Gumbs) when you pre-order her new book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. In this image you can see Alexis’s father Clyde Gumbs’s book in the background. You can get his book Without Apology: Poems in Honor of Black Women here.

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October 25th

It’s the last Sunday of the month, which for us is archive Sunday aka Sankofa. See you next week live!

Sunday October 18th

We have officially moved through all the primary chakras! What comes next? Sermon by Sangodare.

Sunday Oct 11th

This Sunday Service honors Black Feminist Film School ancestor Toni Cade Bambara.

Sermon by Sangodare. Oracle by Alexis.

Sunday October 4th

This Sunday we continue to explore the crown chakra from a queer Black feminist perspective. Opening exercises by Alexis with shouts out to Fannie Lou Hamer and June Jordan. Sermon by Sangodare.

Last September 27, 2020

Happy last Sunday of the month. Usually our last Sunday is archive Sunday with content from the past, but this week in honor of Sangodare’s BIRTHDAY we will be posting a special pre-recorded reflection.

Wednesday is Sangodare’s birthday!!!! Support the ongoing creativity of our divine Queer Black Feminist pastor by sustaining and getting special behind the scenes insight on patreon!

Have a video message for Sangodare? Sangodare Birthday Media Contributions can be made at: http://www.dropbox.com/request/O4qetoeSkUAvrjamayp0

Sunday September 20, 2020

Crown Royal

This Sunday we move to exploring the crown chakra. Sermon by Sangodare, Whale Oracle by Alexis.

Last Sunday September 13, 2020

Writing On the Wall

This Sunday we will reflect on presence and prophecy. Sermon by Sangodare and Oracle by Alexis.

Sunday September 6, 2020

Locomotive Vision

This Sunday we will explore how our vision moves us to action. Sermon by Sangodare. Oracle by Alexis.

Sunday August 30, 2020

Archive Sunday: Pauli Murray

The last Sunday of each month is Mobile Homecoming’s Archive Sunday. Instead of a live service we will time travel to learn more about one of the ancestors who inspires our work. This Sunday we are celebrating Pauli Murray and heading to Barnard where Alexis and Sangodare spoke alongside Alexis’s undergraduate mentors, Pauli Murray biographer Rosalind Rosenberg and the brilliant Monica Miller. The video also features Alexis and Sangodare offering the sermononic they co-wrote for the dedication of the Pauli Murray house as a National Historic Site in Durham.

Sunday August 23, 2020

“A Knowing So Deep”

Inspired by Toni Morrison this Sunday Service connects our divine insight to the collective knowing of our communities. Sermon by Sangodare. Oracle by Alexis.

Sunday August 16, 2020

I Know What I Know

We are moving into our exploration of the third eye chakra. Join us for a service designed to honor and nurture your divine intuition and insight.

Sunday August 9, 2020

“Say What?”

We continue our investigation of the throat chakra, intentional speech and ancestral guidance with a sermon from Sangodare and an oracle from Alexis.

Sunday August 2, 2020

“I Heard a Voice”

Black August is a time to listen to our revolutionary ancestors and to continue to raise our voices for/as liberation. Get centered for the month with a throat chakra healing sermon from Sangodare and an ancestral listening oracle from Alexis!

Sunday, July 26th 2020

Visionary Daughtering

This Sunday we are encouraging everyone to participate in the annual Allied Media Conference. Especially the panel on abolition at noon EST and the closing ceremony at 6:30pm EST created by our beloved Toshi Reagon and which features the words and walking of our favorite preacher (Sangodare!) You can watch all the AMC Mainstage events here: https://amc.alliedmedia.org/. (No registration required)

And if you want something from us in particular, this video of what Sangodare calls “Sista Docta’s first sermon” follows up on the idea of visionary daughtering that we talked about last week as we celebrated Ida B. Wells and Assata Shakur. This is Alexis giving the inaugural lecture for the Women of Color Initiative Speaker Series at Michigan State University at the generous invitation of Black feminist geniuses Rae Paris and Yomaira Figueroa. Sangodare calls it a sermon because of the emotional register Alexis reaches by the end of the talk, which is her first public appearance after the publication of the anthology Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. This talk goes in-depth into the idea of visionary daughtering as inspired by Kakuya Shakur (Assata’s daughter) with loving gratitude to Cheryll Y. Greene and Alice Walker.

Sunday, July 19th 2020

Charge the Air

Sangodare will offer a Sermon and a song. Alexis will give us a collective Black Feminist Oracle message from Ida B. Wells. Join us and celebrate Ida B. Wells and Assata Shakur’s birthday both this week on the same day.

Sunday, July 12th 2020

Love is Lifeforce

It's June Jordan's birthday week! Join us for a sermon from Sangodare to activate your heart's desire and a "Directed by Desire" oracle by Alexis based on June Jordan's poetry.

Sunday, July 5th 2020

Love Me Better

This Sunday enjoy an expansive Queer Black Feminist Soul Heart Chakra Sermon by Sangodare and an oracle by Alexis based on “Heart Cloud” an inner-children’s book she wrote to reclaim her heart.

Sunday, June 28th 2020

Two Sunday Offerings this Sunday!

Flashback: Revival 2019

Alexis and Sangodare are on “Staycation” this week and so we get to time travel back to the Sunday service from Sangodare’s 40th birthday revival this past September. This service took place in the midst of Durham PRIDE and we offer it in celebration of PRIDE month worldwide. Enjoy!

P.S. You will want to watch til the end.

Oracle by Sista Docta Alexis

Sunday, June 21st 2020

Solstice: Cut Through to the Light

Join us in the light of possibility this Sunday as we learn about the spiritual science of solstice from Sangodare and engage a special Ogunda Ogbe Oracle by Alexis in honor of the mix of gratitude and grief many of us experience on Father’s Day.

Sunday, June 14th 2020

Sacred Union

It’s Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s BIRTHDAY WEEKEND! Join us for a joyful noise and a love-based invocation, offering and oracle. This week, for the first time, we will also be broadcasting via zoom (registration required, details below) so you can see your fellow congregants if you’d like!

Register Here to join the zoom congregation: LINK

Sunday, June 7th 2020

Breathe Baby Breathe

This Sunday is an offering to your breathing. Sangodare will offer a sermon on healing evolutionary breathing and Alexis will offer a marine mammal breathing oracle from her forthcoming book Undrowned.

Sunday, May 31st 2020

Power: Sermon and Oracle

This weekend our communities are mobilizing, mourning, and transforming our relationship to power. Join us for a restorative Sunday service with a poetic sermon by Sangodare and an oracle based on Audre Lorde’s “The Black Unicorn” by Alexis.

Sunday, May 24th 2020

Minister of Music: Testimony and Participatory Exegesis

Sangodare is our favorite preacher and also our favorite composer. This Sunday we will have a musical testimony service featuring song selections from Sangodare and an interactive testimony of how we create the spiritual tools we need out of the traditions of our ancestors in an evolutionary way.

Sunday, May 17th 2020

What Y’all Really Want? Divine Desire in a Time of Transformation

Experience a sermon from Sangodare on the energy of the solar plexus, and the depth of what our desire is teaching us at this time, followed up by an oracle offering from Alexis Pauline Gumbs drawn from Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic.

Sunday, May 10th 2020

This Mother's Day Sunday Offering is about love, reciprocity and interdependence. We invite everyone for whom Mother's Day is a cause for celebration, grief, anxiety, a lot of work or anything in between. Sangodare offers a Queer Black Feminist Sermon and Alexis offers some love evangelism about revolutionary mothering.

May 3, 2020

Time travel Sunday! Those of you who are part of the Black Feminist Breathing Meditation Chorus know that today we are in the energy of Pauli Murray’s sermons! So for this Sunday Service we are time traveling back to our 2019 Dark Testament Oracle Service in collaboration with the Pauli Murray Project. Some of you were there with us at Pauli Murray’s elementary school and some of you may be seeing this for the first time. Enjoy this celebration of Pauli Murray’s book of poetry Dark Testament facilitated and with a keynote sermon and oracle by Sangodare & Alexis with poetry and sermons from many of North Carolina’s Black Queer and Trans geniuses! Join the amen corner and participate in the chat starting at 11am EST!

And if you missed the Altar No. 5 Live In-Process Presentation at Live Arts last night facebook you can watch the video here to learn about one of our most exciting collaborations.

Archived

Alexis interviews Sangodare

Northstar Sunday Service - April 19, 2020 (11am)

Give Me Body: Feeling Our Way Through

We (Sangodare and Alexis) will facilitate us through a collective tuning in process. Sangodare will create space for us to feel deeply by offering a sermon inspired by Lorde, Langston and a Queen Latifah song. Alexis will activate an oracle based on Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic.
We are celebrants in residence at Northstar Church of the Arts in Durham for 2020 and sharing space online today with them too, as well as every 3rd Sunday in 2020.

#keepbreathing our reboot of the Black Feminist Breathing Chorus starts on April 22nd. For more information or to sign up go to the Mobile Homecoming Trust Online Practice Space.

Special Event -

M Archive Live Oracle Reading

Sunday Offering - March 29, 2020

March 29, 2020 - Join Sangodare and Alexis for a live conversation this 5th Sunday at 12pm (eastern). We will have a conversation grounded in two sacred texts and engage with congregation via the chat window which will become active during the event.

NOTE: You’ll see the chat window below (or scroll WAAAY down on your mobile device).

Sun Mar 29 - Today’s Texts

From Audre Lorde's Journal

April 16, 1979

"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around.  It feels like turning my life around, inside out.  If I can look directly a my life and my death without flinching I know there is nothing they can ever do to me again.  I must be content to see how really little I can do and still do it with an open heart.  I can never accept this, like I can't accept that turning life around is so hard, eating differently, sleeping differently , moving differently, being differently...I want the old me, bad as before."

July 10, 1980"I dreamt I had begun training to change my life, with a teacher who is very shadowy.  I was not attending classes, but I was going to learn how to change my whole life, live differently, do everything in a new and different way.  I didn't really understand, but I trusted this shadowy teacher.  Another young woman who was there told me she was taking a course in 'language crazure,' the opposite of discrazure (the cracking and wearing away of rock). I thought it would be very exciting to study the formation of crack and composure of words, so I told my teacher I wanted to take that course.  My teacher said okay, but it wasn't going to help me any because I had to learn something else, and I wouldn't get anything new from that class.  I replied, maybe not, but even though I knew all about rocks, for instance, I still liked studying their composition, and giving a name to the different ingredients of which they were made. It's very exciting to think of me being all the people in this dream."

Sunday Offering - March 22, 2020

March 22, 2020/4th Sunday Offering - Join Sangodare Live from Northstar (Home).
This is a follow up sermonette to the 3rd Sunday Service that was Livestreamed.

Northstar - March 15, 2020

The 3rd Sunday Service in March 2020 was on March 15. We asked our local congregation to join us from home for the SAKE of wellness. Our March Sunday Service was called Home, Sweet Home we streamed it live from Northstar Church of the Arts in Durham, NC. Note: The action starts about 17min into the video.

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