“I am so grateful to Ta-Nehisi Coates* for expressing so well the frustration I feel watching the media coverage of the protests in Baltimore. I believe in non-violence not just as a tactic, but as a way of life. Yet I cannot stomach the indignant condemnation of young people throwing stones and looting stores when those same indignant politicians and Continue Reading
Post by Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland).
There is also work to be done in study. Every revolutionary movement needs people who think and study and write and analyze. A revolution is not sustainable if there are only people on the street. via Models and Authorizations: An Interview with Walter Brueggemann. — Theology of Ferguson — Medium. Somewhere in this mention I find myself, or wish to Continue Reading
via Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Policing & Noam Chomsky | Democracy Now!.
we must learn to separate the individual officers, the lower-case police as humans, from the capital P- Police, the system and the problem. For Christians, we stand with people but we stand against systems of oppression. “Fuck the Police†can be possible in a Christian context, because it is the real cry of people, because it is a cry of Continue Reading
Too often in this “Christian Nation” (or any other instance of nationwide Christians who live under an instance “Christendom” – where the Christians of a certain nation live under what many will call a “dual citizenship” (Kingdom of God and one of the “Kingdoms of the Earth”) …..too often we avoid the confrontations with the Kingdoms of the Earth where Continue Reading