“There’s a rich history of people of faith joining the revolution of restoration, and that often means we have to disrupt the status quo of a pseudo-peace.”
Listen in on Andre Henry’s fascinating conversation about race, justice, and discipleship with Jer Swigart of The Global Immersion Project, and be sure to check out Global Immersion’s new podcast, Everyday Peacemakers!
Open House with Jer Swigart from Christians for Social Action on Vimeo.
Editor’s note: This piece is part 4 of our 4-part series on the levels of strategy for nonviolent direct action for racial justice. Click here to start at the beginning.
A political miracle for racial justice occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, in the late spring of 1963.
By Michael Stalcup
This poem was originally published in Sojourners Magazine, inspired by James Cone’s book, The Cross and the Lynching Tree.
We shudder at the inhumanity,
the crafted cruelness of that sickening show:
the stripped humiliation, blasphemy
of beaten flesh, death’s agonies stretched slow
by fellow men created in God’s image,
turned terrorists, enslaved to sin’s strange fruit.