Sometimes Our Tunnel Vision Is Limited To

Charity Wins Awards And Applause, But Joining The Poor Gets You Killed. People Do Not Get Crucified For Charity. People Are Crucified For Living Out A Love That Disrupts The Social Order, That Calls Forth A New World. People Are Not Crucified For Helping Poor People. People Are Crucified For Joining Them.

The Christian Icon Is Not The Stars And Stripes But A Cross-flag, And Its Emblem Is Not A Donkey, An Elephant, Or An Eagle, But A Slaughtered Lamb.

Sometimes Our Tunnel Vision Is Limited To What We See Outside Our Window. Until Racial Injustice Becomes Personal Then I Don't Think It Moves Us In Our Gut.

Karl Barth Said It Well: "we Have To Read The Bible In One Hand... And The Newspaper In The Other." Our Faith Should Not Cause Us To Escape This World But To Engage It.

We're Remembering Both The Good And The Bad In Our History Together In This World. This Isn't An Attempt To Make People Feel Bad Every Morning And To Force Them To Go Stick Their Fingers In A Wall Socket. We Chose These Things We Included As A Way To Point People Toward The Possibility Of Transformation Even While Remembering The Great Pain We Have Experienced As Humanity.