This bears repeating, from a post I reacted to yesterday:
From time to time in world history, the historical situation changes so that Christians – if they’re true to their faith – must respond to the particular evil manifesting itself by putting their entire lives on the line in opposition to the culture, much as Jesus did at Nazareth. Most recently, in Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa, the followers of Jesus were called to name the evil of their specific situations and put the full energy of the faith community against it. At some significant cost, they were called to dissociate themselves from the rest of their society and work as small communities to change the historical reality.
We’ve reached such a time in the United States now. We must come together as a community and discover how we can respond to this new historical situation. We must become the modern equivalent of the “Confessing Church.â€
