The Center for Prophetic Imagination

Jesus is the powerless Palestinian humiliated at a checkpoint. - Naim Ateek

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

"That's weird" is an incredibly subversive was to address white supremacy.

There is a power dynamic that enables the status quo of white cis/het perspectives.
"That's weird" is a rejection of that status quo.

"I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble."
- Bayard Rustin

Charity isn't justice.

I didn't think people realize that they have to hope that I go to hell.

Because, if I don't, all the harm Christianity has caused to the trans and q***r community has been done out of fear-induced hatred against those in God's image and not because of "God's love."

Drag is a subversive expression of creativity against supremacy.

Being upset at a drag recreation of (what is misidentifies as) the last supper shows that we don't understand Jesus.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say...

"Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff."
- Sojourner Truth

The destruction of homeless encampments is evil incarnate.

The spirit is found with the oppressed, not the oppressor.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery. - Frantz Fanon

"We don't condone political violence" is a lie when you have a genocidal leader speak to Congress.

- Kalie May Hargrove

God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates.

White fragility is a fundamental part of white supremacy.

Whiteness fears equality, which makes it both weak and violent.

From St. Ambrose of Milan:

"Nature has poured forth all things for all people for common use. God has ordered all things to be produced, so that there should be food in common to all, and that the earth should be a common possession for all. Nature, therefore, has produced a common right for all, but greed has made it a right for a few."

Women of Color led first century churches.

To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Words of power from

The money you hoard up belongs to the poor.

The Way of Jesus is about self-fulfillment, not self-negation.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on. - Langston Hughes

"It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation."
- James H. Cone

Political violence is more than assassinations.
Cultural discrimination against trans people,
Systematic racism,
Qualified immunity,
Removal of bodily autonomy,
Supplying weapons and ammunition to support an ongoing genocide,

These are all forms of political violence.
The issue is where we draw the line on what is an acceptable "political practice."

Once you give to God what belongs to God, there is nothing left for Caesar!

"Listen for our voices–our protests chants drawing nearer. Join us in the front ranks. We are marching toward liberation." —Leslie Feinberg

"We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others."

- William Lloyd Garrison

As Christians,
We have to understand that it's our theologies that are killing trans people.
It is our theologies that cause people to murder trans people.
It is our theologies that are making this world unlivable for trans people.

As Christians, we are crucifying trans people as a sacrifice to the god of our empire.

It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in God. He has only to refuse to believe in everything that is not God. - Simone Weil