Serving at the intersection of Faith, Healing and Justice
Sharing my meditations as I travel the road to becoming Rev. Rolle.
Crucifixion was a political death, akin to dying by firing squad or public lynching.
So, help me understand how a religion whose foundation is based upon the crucifixion of Jesus and his rising again after such a death can consider itself apolitical?
To divorce politics from the faith is to carry a shrunken gospel.
Our savior died a revolutionary’s death, so I am committed to the revolution.
I’m declaring that we have been spoiled (rotten) with inspiration. It is a thing that will not come easily, might not come at all, and doesn’t do much in the worldwide theater of American politics, other than give people hope in the midst of a system that is not built for them. This is not to say that inspiration is bad. It is just woefully insufficient.
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