Comments on: Insurrection for Peace

By: lane

lane — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:29:11 +0000

my mom (we call her rev. mother) spoke on the 'already but not yet' @ pepperdine lectures a while back… and what a love like this might look like to a watching world and especially our children. thanks for the post!

By: Kevin Sweeney

Kevin Sweeney — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:40:45 +0000

if we did embrace the idea of being insurrectionists in each of our corners of the world, then it seems that would we not have to dread the larger issues like Charlie says. The connectedness of all issues being dealt with by people committed with the same insurrectionist heart in their local context would free us from that dread of dealing with the larger issues because we would not feel individually helpless.

By: Lainie Petersen

Lainie Petersen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:44:35 +0000

I like what Rollins has to say about about not seeing the revolution's end or entire scope: I think it is very easy to be results oriented which is probably a side effect of "purpose driven" thinking.

I'd say that we need to be more aware of our presence in this time, in this place. To act justly because it is the right thing to do, not because we think we are meeting a goal.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:59:38 +0000

As is often the case, I think C.S. Lewis said it well:

"Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers. It thinks it is a civil war, a rebellion, and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel.

"Enemy-occupied territory–that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."

"Mere Christianity" Bk.II Ch.2

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:22:59 +0000

Good thoughts, Julie. The language of insurrection seems, for me, to supplant at least a bit of the dread of viewing the larger issues and feeling individually helpless.

I was reading this morning and ran across something along these lines. Kimberly Vrudny writes that "the quality of existance for all of humankind is directly impacted by the degree to which we allow one another to participate in glory, or to languish in suffering."