Archives for category: Uncategorized
« Older Entries

Thank You to Everyone Who Participated in the Online Public Safety Research Study!

December 20, 2024 //
0

Hello, all! Spring is here (officially on March 20, 2025) and now my public safety research study has concluded! Thank you for your support and look out for any future updates/articles here!

In the meantime, you can follow me on ResearchGate for older publications:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chantee-Parris-Strigle

~Chantee

Tags , , , ,
Categories Uncategorized

LORD HAVE MERCY

March 23, 2021 //
0

Two mass shootings only a week apart…

The news from Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado is all too much to take… I agree with Rev Warnock that America’s priorities are twisted when some politicians are pushing legislation to stop people from voting the same day they register all while blocking legislation that would stop people from buying assault weapons that can be used to take the lives of others the same day they are purchased…

For more prayer (because heaven knows we need it), join me and my prayer partners on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

Categories Uncategorized

Advent 2020 Week 1 Scripture

November 30, 2020 //
0
Isaiah 40:31

For more prayer (because heaven knows we need it), join me and my prayer partners on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

Tags
Categories Uncategorized

Election Day 2020 Prayer-Share

November 3, 2020 //
0

Found this great Election Day prayer on crosswalk.com… Feel free to share this prayer or your own in your circles and/or in the comments and may God’s peace cover this election, nation and world:

For more prayer (because heaven knows we need it), join me and my prayer partners on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

Categories Uncategorized

Ode to Breonna…

September 24, 2020 //
0

At this point, they could have kept this judgement since it is a way more insulting gesture at justice than the compromise no-knock warrant ban or the $12-million dollar settlement. After 100+ days since Breonna Taylor was taken from this world far too soon and countless more years of people missing the mark, there are really no words to express the feelings and problems involved in this situation; however, this song comes pretty close:

For more prayer (because heaven knows we need it), join me and my prayer partners on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

Categories Uncategorized

Elegy 2020 (Ode to George Floyd)

June 5, 2020 //
0

 

 

poem for g 2020

 

side by side

Categories Uncategorized

Another 2020 Prayer

June 2, 2020 //
0

patch

 

Another 2020 Prayer:

 

Named Prayer 2020

 

For more prayer, join in here on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

 

Categories Uncategorized

A 2020 Mother’s Day Prayer

May 11, 2020 //
0

mother's day prayer

 

For more prayer (because heaven knows we need it), join me and my prayer partners on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

Categories Uncategorized

2020 Prayer & Apologetics

May 9, 2020 //
0

As much as I miss my family during this time of social distancing in 2020, I have never been as emotionally torn in between the times that I do see them as I have been now -especially when it comes to my black male brothers and father. As recently as Thursday when one of my brothers paid me a visit, even though we were both wearing masks, the fact that he took public transportation and forgot to text me when he made it back home had me in a 24-hour state of panic that only prayer could start to somewhat soothe. What if he had been stopped or killed by a racist on his journey or what if someone on the train had sneezed on him on either legs of his trip. Moreover, what if my building had a case of Covid-19 and I had unwittingly compromised his health by giving in to my emotions and letting him come over? Sounds like a lot right; but, unfortunately, all of these thoughts and circumstances are only a tip of the proverbial iceberg that is my current bio-psycho-social plight at present.

When I say that this country and this world needs a miracle for us all to make it in the future, I mean it from the bottom my soul. I pray for that change from the bottom of my soul since there are only so many videos and stories of killing or death that a heart can take before it breaks. With so much racism, xenophobia, anti-semitism, classism and every other ism on blatant display in the headlines these days, I know and feel that my heart had broken a long time ago before this weekend; so, I’ve been using prayer and writing to help manage some of my feelings. Moreover, what causes me to pray is not an irrational or spiritualized habit that I got from Christian culture; but, it is with good sense, several Ivy League degrees and the Holy Ghost that I have observed and mourned years of senseless evil that I have had to work and live through. Along the spectrum of overt and obvious acts of hatred like being physically shoved or called derogatory names  right on through to the smallest microaggressions that were denied to gas-light me and others to accept disrespect, I have decided that I would forgive others to keep on keeping on. Instead of lashing out, I would participate in grassroots community organizing efforts and lay any problems on my altar of prayer to God in the hopes that the Holy Spirit would in turn move and mobilize people in their own local communities.

Ultimately, and to be completely honest, most communities who are not praying and working to fix their own local problems are either complicit in the evil or too decimated and demolished by oppression to act beyond mere survival instincts or outright submission to the forces that benefit from hate and division. We need something like neighborhood versions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa instituted here in America to move forward since -to put it simply, and truth be told, whites in authority probably need to tell other whites to stop killing and being hateful while communities of color need serious attention paid to healing from their societal traumas and/or internalized racism. I know this since the first time I was called a derogatory word, it was actually a latinx person (and not some KKK Grand Dragon) who had done it after undoubtedly internalizing the racist and anti-immigrant ethos (from KKK Grand Dragons)  in this country that is arguably more hostile to immigrants and latinx people now than it was then. We need a miracle in the sense of a mass-conversion away from hate and sin internally that can’t be legislated. -And if you think this is just a fluke personal encounter, also remember that Trayvon Martin’s killer had a mother from Peru plus an Afro-Peruvian maternal grandmother on top of identifying as “Hispanic” on voter-registration forms! Indeed, what we need is inner-conversion away from hate or violence  and towards peace combined with local efforts to curb  discrimination and inequality when we see it on the day to day level. Until we have all those things and a vaccine for COVID-19, we really need to pray with our hands and feet every day. And so I pray:

 

A 2020 Prayer

For more prayer (because heaven knows we need it), join me and my prayer partners on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

 

Categories Uncategorized

May 8, 2020 //
0

A 2020 Prayer

( In light of the pandemic, senseless hate and violence in America)

God of Moses, Naomi and Nehemiah, we thank you for your hand of righteousness that uplifts the lowly and gives power to the powerless. We cherish the wonders of your world-changing witness throughout salvation history and we embrace the coming of your kingdom of justice and peace. For it is your peace that we need in this world today to help the hateful put away their violence as your people mourn sons and daughters who succumb to senseless murder, destruction and disease. We ask for your strength to seek a better world and dismantle systems of evil that seek to destroy your people. For we are truly your people, even when we stray and turn away from the paths that would otherwise lead us to you. So we ask your forgiveness now for what we have done or left undone and we ask you to help restore right relationships with you and our neighbors in the efforts to reflect your kingdom in our communities here on Earth. May we remember to lower our eyes to our brothers and sisters who need us and as we care for one another, we ask you to continually care for us and protect us from powers that seek to kill, steal, and destroy even as we know they were defeated by your Son on that Easter day when the stone was rolled away. Likewise, we open our hearts to you for your spirit to roll away every burden and barrier to your love so that we find our way to you through the lies of this world to your truth that can make us all free in You and your Son who reigns with the Holy Spirit, One God, omniscient, omnipotent and eternal.

AMEN.

 

For more prayer (because heaven knows we need it), join me and my prayer partners on the Higherlink Equation Prayer Line 8:00 PM (EST) Sundays using this link:
https://zoom.us/j/7514608857

Meeting ID: 751 460 8857

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7514608857# US (New York)
+13126266799,,7514608857# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US
+1 301 715 8592 US
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
Meeting ID: 751 460 8857
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aL35rXw5L

Categories Uncategorized
« Older Entries