Re-shared from Tikkun. Ordained from Hebrew College of Boston in 2014, Rabbi Alana Alpert serves a dual position as rabbi of Congregation T’chiyah and as a community organizer with Detroit Jews for Justice. Because they have been working closely together on the Michigan Poor Peoples Campaign, she invited Rev. Bill Wylie-Kellermann to share the teaching […]
From Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s newest release Dying Well: The Resurrected Life of Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann: I don’t intend to use it as a frame, but I do want to say something about denial. I understand how healthy a survival mechanism denial can be in certain circumstances, a sane way to cope in the short term. So let […]
By Bill Wylie-Kellermann For Joanna and Eitan, August 25, 2010 When the half-moon hangs faint in the mid-day sky and earth already turns toward dusk make a wedding When the city, faint and far, cracks and cries and blood forgotten runs beneath the streets make a wedding When earth and sea gasp for air when […]
By Bill Wylie-Kellermann There are a number of sweet connections between Word and World and the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. As the campaign heats up in the midst of these 40 days of action and witness, it’s worth remembering a few of them. In 2003, we did one off our […]
From Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s newest release Dying Well: The Resurrected Life of Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann: …in the course of Jeanie’s illness and death, I’ve not really found myself angry with God. I never really raged against the locked doors of heaven, or demanded to know why the Divine should permit such bad things happening to one so […]
By Bill Wylie-Kellermann For Nelson Johnson, upon retirement, April 28, 2018 some there are, I can name the few, whom I would follow without pause anywhere. one or two are in the house.
By Bill Wylie-Kellermann I remember precisely where I was when I got the news of Martin Luther King’s assassination. It was my freshman year in college, a midwestern liberal arts school, and I’d just walked into the lounge of my dormitory when a bulletin broke into regular TV programing. The lone other student, whose face […]
By Bill Wylie-Kellermann Spirit of the Universe, whose moral arc you make to bend toward justice, thank you for birthing our brother Martin, right on time, into our history, into the journey of transformation for which we yearn. For uttering him in the Word, and forming him in the womb. We lift him up this […]
Because Christmas has become so central to the American economy and American consumption is so central to global capitalism, this festival of ‘Holy Days’ has become a central expression and embodiment of American imperial domination, an imperial religion. Richard Horsley, Religion and Empire (2003) Truly, this Season signals a major tension for North American radical […]
By Bill Wylie-Kellermann, re-posted from his facebook. A long aside. I’ve been indexing a book on the principalities and powers which will appear in October from Fortress Press. “Principalities” is a new testament name for spiritual structures of power (a notion important to movements various) – and I’ve actually been writing about them in the […]
