Tag Archives: social justice

Majority Impact on Minority Practices

Posted on October 4, 2023 by gaudetetheology

This essay discusses Barbara Redman’s 1991 article Sabbatarian Accommodation in the Supreme Court, in conversation with chapter 2 of The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz, 2011, “Group Dynamics.” I was delighted by the … Continue reading →

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Stories, Reality, and Trans Inclusion

Posted on March 27, 2022 by gaudetetheology

“The monomyth is the story that’s managed to win. The one that beat up all the other stories and sent them crying home to Mommy without their schoolbooks and lunch money.” Unpleasant realization dawned. “You’re talking about reality.” “Of course … Continue reading →

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Social Justice and Sexual Diversity

Posted on October 11, 2019 by gaudetetheology

I’m writing this on National Coming Out Day in the United States. The metaphorical closet to which it refers is a potent symbol of vulnerable marginalization. This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments from plaintiffs who believe they have a … Continue reading →

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Signs of the Times

Posted on July 9, 2018 by gaudetetheology

“Why don’t you just say all lives matter, ma’am?”

What I wish I’d said when he asked me, and why it matters. Continue reading →

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But what can we do? For white people who feel helpless

Posted on July 11, 2016 by gaudetetheology

It’s been a terrible week. Alton Sterling, selling CDs in front of a store with the store owner’s permission, killed by police. Philando Castile, stopped for a broken taillight, killed by police in his car with his girlfriend and her … Continue reading →

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On the #AMEShooting in Charleston, SC

Posted on June 21, 2015 by gaudetetheology

On Wednesday, June 17, an avowed white supremacist went to a Wednesday night Bible study and prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Charleston, South Carolina: a historic church, the oldest black church south of Baltimore. The … Continue reading →

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So Much Internet: FergusonOctober edition

Posted on October 13, 2014 by gaudetetheology

There’s been so much going on around the movement sparked by the August 9th shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, which has intensified every time another black person has been killed or brutalized by police since then — many … Continue reading →

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Ferguson, Missouri

Posted on August 14, 2014 by gaudetetheology

Today, it’s finally made the mainstream media. But terrible things have been happening in Ferguson, Missouri — a small municipality in St. Louis County — since Saturday afternoon, when 18yo Mike Brown was shot and killed by police. According to … Continue reading →

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Powers, Principalities, and Structural Sin

Posted on November 27, 2011 by gaudetetheology

I’m reading through Lesslie Newbigin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, and was struck by his chapter “Principalities, Powers, and People”. He revisits the uses of Paul’s language of powers and principalities, which have been generally interpreted as elements of … Continue reading →

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