My greatest contribution was probably the picture of me, leaning over my little child to speak into the microphone, with the legislator who had proposed the bill scowling off to the side.
I had been standing...
To be witnesses to the resurrection we must utter our 'No' to state-sanctioned violence, racism, oppression, injustice, and all that endangers life and creation.
"...the priorities of the university are political power and earthly wealth. For this, I call Liberty University and its leadership to repent and return to the gospel."
While I am moved to get off the sidelines today to speak out about the corruption in football, I am repeatedly tackled to identify every other area of depravity in which I need to step out of the sidelines and into the arena to proclaim a better way.
The word courage or “counter-cultural witness” is typically reserved for those willing to die themselves rather than a term for those using oppressed minority groups as a bullet shield for their own existential anxieties about losing political power in a changing world.