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“Attack” is a strange word for protest
When the state makes enemies of protestors, it uses the language of violence as cover to use violence against them, to disempower them.
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Conviction and turning the other cheek
There is a certain depiction in US culture that the command to love is weak, but it is actually the primary building block of protest.
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Protest is supposed to be uncomfortable
Campus protests around the plight of Palestinians are growing and the public is struggling with how to feel about the idea of protesting.
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How to avoid solving a problem
Protests are an opportunity to hear from the powerless. They aren’t a problem that needs to be fixed.
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This Monday of Holy Week 2018
It’s the day after the great entrance. Palm Sunday was yesterday. Jesus seems to change before our eyes. But he doesn’t. It’s our stunning inactivity which gets called out at the beginning of Holy Week. We all know this story. It often goes by the strange name: the cleansing of the Temple. But it doesn’t…
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The greatest challenge to free speech on campus isn’t protest.
There’s a lot of exercising of free speech these days. And I love it. Well, I love the positive kind. And the kind which provokes us to better ourselves. Of course, I’m not into the kind which denigrates and destroys. The kind which labels and causes emotional harm. That kind I struggle to defend. I’m…
