It is a hospitality that seeks people out, meets them where they are and invites them into loving community. Harm reduction calls people by name, and attends to and cherishes the particularities. It is the expression of radical welcome, the welcoming of all stories and paths. Harm reduction is holy, faith-full resistance, rooted in love and unapologetically insistent on justice. And it is our obligation to ensure that this gospel of dignity, compassion, of love, that this gospel of harm reduction, is accessible to all. This crisis is also an obligation.Īs people who seek to align ourselves with the higher good, who are accountable to the spirit of perfect justice and love, we are called to participate in the emergence. Most significantly, we are in a crisis which fails to recognize God in Black and Brown people, which terrorizes Black communities through mass surveillance and brutality called policing, which wields racist drug policy to decimate Black families, which fails to recognize the overdose crisis has long been devastating these communities, which fails to celebrate the lives of people of color, proclaims in silence and through the creation of sacrifice zones that Black deaths are more compelling than Black lives. We are in a crisis which stigmatizes and others our most vulnerable neighbors, which limits access to opportunities and rights, to stable and healthy housing, which ensures under- and unemployment, which fuels an industry of exclusion and deportation, which limits elevation through education and prevents people from accessing drug treatment and life affirming harm reductions services. We are in a crisis, when whole people, created in the image of the most divine, are redacted and fractured, reduced to behaviors and pathologies, dehumanized. Setting the Table: Why We Are Here The Moral Problem We invite you to learn and grow along with us. We recognize that this toolkit draws primarily from Christian communities and communities of people who use drugs, but as Faith in Harm Reduction develops, we hope to incorporate resources from other faith traditions, from more people who do sex work, and from other people and groups vulnerable to structural violence. New voices, resources, and updates to existing information will be made as we move this work forward. This toolkit is a living document, and will continue to evolve and grow as the movement does.
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