As Christians, we follow the teachings of Jesus who repeatedly told us to love each other, love our neighbors, and love even our enemies. When we pursue a life that makes radical love visible, on earth as it is in heaven, our actions are marked and defined by love. Listen to this important message by ESA Racial Justice Fellow Micky ScottBey Jones as she explores the importance of revolutionary love and asks us to “put love back into the center of our movements for justice.”

The Cross and the Lynching Tree: A Poetic Response
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.