God hasn't given up and neither will I.
It's time for us to believe in resurrection again. Because my God is still overthrowing empires and bringing life from the dust.
It's time for us to mean what we say as followers of Jesus. To stand for justice and peace. To create a world where every single person is honored as a beloved child of God. To speak truth to power even when it's really really hard.
On Sunday we will celebrate Easter, resurrection day, where Jesus got back up and came back to life so that no one else would have to suffer and die at the hands of the empire the way that he did.
This is Holy Week for those of us who identify as Christians. The week we walk with Jesus who was unjustly and wrongfully accused, tortured and put to death by his government.
The president of the United States of America has said that he is refusing to return a man to this country who was sent to this same prison due to an administrative error.
The president of the United States of America just said that he wants to figure out how to send American born citizens to a violent and abusive prison in El Salvador.
It's time for us to believe in resurrection again. Because my God is still overthrowing empires and bringing life from the dust.
God hasn't given up and neither will I.
It's time for us to mean what we say as followers of Jesus. To stand for justice and peace. To create a world where every single person is honored as a beloved child of God. To speak truth to power even when it's really really hard...
On Sunday we will celebrate Easter, resurrection day, where Jesus got back up and came back to life so that no one else would have to suffer and die at the hands of the empire the way that he did...
This is Holy Week for those of us who identify as Christians. The week we walk with Jesus who was unjustly and wrongfully accused, tortured and put to death by his government...
The president of the United States of America has said that he is refusing to return a man to this country who was sent to this same prison due to an administrative error...
...In Spanish the word for power is poder, which is also a verb meaning 'to be able.' Organizing creates power to act in ways we cannot on our own." -Heidi B. Neumark (Breathing Space)
"Community organizing is the recovery of sanity in the midst of Babel...It is remembering, reconnecting, renewing, restoring, reforming, repairing, respecting, resurrecting, relationship. It is civic friendship built on relational power...
