Does our vote line up with Jesus’ priorities?
Politics
Open letter to my fellow Christians
Jesus did not come to Earth for lower taxes, to impose new rules and morality on the world, or the right to choose whether or not to wear a mask. He came to Earth to challenge the status quo, fix inequity, and to serve the destitute.
Wet’suwet’en vs. Conservatives
The real fight is not with Canadians; it is with the people in power who have created a system whereby they can exploit our country at the expense of those who live here and claim the moral high ground because the law is supposedly on their side.
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What’s love got to do with it?
Love is one of the most important and powerful tools in the toolkit of a social disruptor.
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Global patriotism
Global patriotism is not commitment or dedication to a country or nation but to humanity – and our planet – as a whole.
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Exporting economic costs
An economy that strives for the lowest cost possible by any means possible necessarily shifts the burden of cost to another, and invariably in the Western economy, that cost is shifted to low-income countries that do not participate in the Western economy.
Separating people from institutions
There is no “us” and “them”. There is only “us”. Quite frankly, if we ever want to create a world worth inhabiting, there can only ever be an “us” – we are all in this together.
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Anger for social change
Anger can be a tool to motivate action so long as it is directed not at an individual but at the underlying social system that allows this injustice to take place.
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Questioning power dynamics
By refusing to accept the socially-accepted balance of power, we can begin to shift the balance of power away from institutions and pre-existing structures back towards the people.
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Question everything
For most of us, we were taught to accept truth without questioning it, because we did not have the authority to question it, even though a truth that has not been questioned, reasoned, and investigated is not a truth but an assumption.