Rev. Lindsey Joyce is a United Methodist pastor at Grace Church of Logan Square on the North side of Chicago. She spends her time helping churches imagine different futures and community organizing.
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My Church Opened Its Doors to Protesters. Yours Should Too
Artists curated by Paints Institute, paint murals on the boarded up windows of St. John's Church as a work of art activism for racial justice at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2020. Credit: Reuters/Cheriss May.
In the summer of 2020, I was scrolling through Twitter (now called X) when I saw a video of young protesters gathering near the house of the Chicago Mayor at that time, Lori Lightfoot. They were protesting her heel turn away from the progressive policies on which she had run. In the background of the video the doors of my church, Grace Church of Logan Square, were firmly closed. To have our doors closed to brave and bold young people fighting for justice was not the witness that my church wanted to bear. So, I called several of my leaders and our partner congregation, St. Luke’s Lutheran, and our protest support group was born.