the Occupy movement, through its steadfast refusal to respond to police provocation, resonated across the country. Losing this moral authority, this ability to show through nonviolent protest the corruption and decadence of the corporate state, would be crippling to the movement. It would reduce us to the moral degradation of our oppressors. And that is what our oppressors want. — Continue Reading
From Occupy Seattle: “The Occupy Movement is finally identifying that there’s a problem with the system and poor people are a symbol of the problem.” http://www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&b=5259669&ct=11551765 The Rev. John Helmiere’s face shows wounds after he says a Seattle police officer beat him while he was trying to keep peace Continue Reading
Just a few choice morsels from Jesus For President (p. 228) The church is a people called out of the world to embody a social alternative that the world cannot know on its own terms. Ironic that so many people in the church adopt the categories and the “realism” of the world, and become skeptics of the relevance of Jesus Continue Reading
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