Adapted from 
Mario Benedetti, Uruguay 1979
Voice 1: if each hour brings death
If time is a den of thieves
The breezes carry a scent of evil
And life is just a moving target
People: you will ask why we sing
Voice 2: if our finest people are shunned
Our homeland is dying of sorrow
And the human heart is shattered
Even before shame explodes Continue reading “Por que Cantamos”
What is the vitality and necessity
of clean water?
Ask the man who is ill, and who is lifting
his lips to the cup.
Ask the forest.
I don’t have a minute to hate. I’ll pursue justice the rest of my life.
Mamie Carthan (the mother of Emmett Till)
Tomorrow, on the anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ escape to freedom, Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries and Word & World will be officially launching a daily-updated blog to highlight the unique strand of North American “movement” Christianity. We are committed to being collective (welcoming a multiplicity & diversity of voices), convictional (unapologetically theological), constructive (creating a new world out of the shell of the old) and concrete (covering a range of personal to political practices, from reformist to revolutionary). Continue reading “RadicalDiscipleship Launching September 3”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”–Martin Luther King, Letter From A Birmingham Jail (1963)
“Together, the chapters make the case that historically high imprisonment rates and the intensive policing and surveillance that have accompanied them are transforming poor Black neighborhoods into communities of suspects and fugitives. A climate of fear and suspicion pervades everyday life, and many residents live with the daily concern that the authorities will seize them and take them away. A new social fabric is emerging under the threat of confinement: one woven in suspicion, distrust, and the paranoiac practices of secrecy, evasion, and unpredictability.”― Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (2014)
