Red Hens, resistance, and love

Johan Mau­r­er weighs in on the civility-in-politics ques­tions hap­pen­ing now. He makes use­ful dis­tinc­tions between mass behav­ior and spon­ta­neous protest and then lays out the sit­u­a­tion for those of us who fol­low the Prince of Peace.

I’m con­vinced that the USA is in a kind of dan­ger that is new to most of us. But even if our worst fears turn out to be exag­ger­at­ed, the scale of pain and despair among some (and wicked glee among oth­ers) is some­thing that demands a prophet­ic and pas­toral response from all who claim to rep­re­sent Good News.

Also check out his list of eight options for respond­ing to the cur­rent polit­i­cal crisis.

https://​blog​.canyoube​lieve​.me/​2​0​1​8​/​0​6​/​s​o​w​i​n​g​-​i​n​-​t​e​a​r​s​-​p​a​r​t​-​t​w​o​-​r​e​d​-​h​e​n​s​.​h​tml

One thought on “Red Hens, resistance, and love

  1. IMO there is a dif­fer­ence between being unciv­il and con­fronta­tion­al. I think often about the Civ­il Rights Move­ment. Seems to me they were con­fronta­tion­al, they got in peo­ple’s faces, but I don’t see them as unciv­il. I see unciv­il, for instance, as a pub­lic offi­cial call­ing for jour­nal­ists to be “curb-stomped,” among oth­er com­ments. We don’t have to sink to that lev­el. We can hit hard and be effec­tive with­out doing that.

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