Calling All Mothers: Let’s Make ‘Mother’s Day’ Count
Use Mother’s Day as an opportunity to be a sharp stick in the eye of this country. Occupy Mother’s Day and say enough is enough.
Shall We Celebrate the 1%?
OCT 18, 2013 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- It continues to amaze me that there are Christians who seem to be much more interested in defending...
Interrupting Inequality — from Wall Street to Your Street
BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- Ten years ago, we threw a party on Wall Street. It was one year after 9/11 and nine years before...
Is the Kingdom of God Built of Vegetables?
BY: JEREMY JOHN -- Vegetables. Who could have imagined an economy in which gentle vegetables were subversive?
The Table is the Microcosm of a Practical Faith
My generation is a practical generation, and I am challenged by my faith to be a practical person. Don’t get me wrong: I love all verbal and theological things: story, theology, politics, and history, pe...
When a System Demands our Allegiance Away from Christ
When I am faced with dishonesty and fraud on a systemic scale, I ask questions of God. But as I trace the origins of injustice, I am directed back towards humanity. The question becomes: what can we do to e...
Occupy Nonviolence: Not Flesh and Blood
Amid the recent police violence in Oakland and the sure temptation of some protestors to resort to violence, I wrote this little reflection inviting all Occupiers to a renewed commitment to nonviolence.
There...
The Occupation of the Lord’s Prayer
The occupation is like Jesus' parable, where a king invites all of his privileged, first-tier guests to the wedding. But nobody came. So the king takes the invitation out to the streets, inviting all who w...
A Visit To Occupy Washington D.C.: Some Thoughts on Violence and Nonviolence
My son and I were in Washington, D.C. on November 20th to attend the "Super Vigil" for a just and fair budget. Afterward, when we had finished visiting with a few of the people who had gathered for the event,...
What Would Jesus Occupy? Faith & #Occupy Wall Street
It might sound like a set up for a punchline; two God’s Politics contributors, a Muslim professor, an economist, a theologian and translator of Zizek’s work, and an Benedictine Abbott step into radio studi...