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How We Spend Our Money: As we seek to live the alternative, I encourage you to investigate alternative news sources, book sellers, and online retailers that are more in-line with your values. Also patronize local businesses, restaurants, and coffee shops that respect and honor ALL people. There are many Black-owned, woman-owned, and LGBTQIA+ owned businesses in Indy, so try to buy as local as possible whenever possible, and build relationships with those you support. If you have any suggestions, please email them to ahobbs@broadwayumc.org.

Here are a few to get us started:
+ Book & Audio Book Sellers:

• Bookshop.org is a great alternative to Amazon for book lovers. You can even support local independent bookstores in Indy (Pastor Aaron has chosen to attach Loud Mouth Books to his account because it is a Black-owned, LGBTQIA+ owned, and Female-owned business, and they get paid with every order).
• Libro.fm is a similarly priced alternative to Audible for audio books. FYI: If you cancel Audible you still retain all of you previously purchased audio books.
• Most Public Libraries also have e-books and audio books available for FREE through apps like Hoopla.

+ Social Media:


• Threads to replace Twitter (I know, but it’s kind of like Deer Creek for me.) 
• Bluesky. 
• Follow Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley on Instagram

+ Book Suggestions:

• The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance by Jemar Tisby
• Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin
• Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (The Graphic Edition is really good with illustrations form Nora Krug.)
• Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human by Cole Arthur Riley
• Protest at Midnight: Ministry to a Nation Torn Apart by Peter Storey

+ News Sources

• Democracy Docket
•  Under the Desk News
• The Atlantic
• Sojourners
• The Christian Century
• Meidas Touch 

Peter Storey with Wabash Pastoral Leadership Cohort 4 in South Africa, 2016.

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