All I want for Christmas is for us to recognize that every dollar we spend criminalizing homelessness is a dollar we could’ve better spent on housing, care, and economic opportunity.
I do not believe these are days for mincing words. I’m 63 1/2 years old & I have never seen anything in these United States of America I found more astonishingly seductive & dangerous to the saints of God than Trumpism. This Christian nationalism is not of God. Move back from it.
A sentence I read this morning by Rowan Williams:
"The one thing you know for certain about your tiresome, annoying, disobedient, disedifying fellow Christians is that God has welcomed them; that becomes your challenge."
I don’t think there’s a purer, more distilled form of evil than anti-homeless architecture. Imagine spending this much money to prevent people without homes from getting sleep.
There is an entire arm of Christian apologetics that is aimed at denying the realties of those who are marginalized and oppressed.
Few things seem more unloving than this.
1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it.
Trump’s decision to end DACA was one of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president in modern history.
He lost.
Congratulations to DREAMers and all who fought to make this enormous victory possible.
The fight for justice continues!
Planning a wedding during unprecedented times, and the only detail that Covid-19 can’t affect is our need for a Dr Pepper fountain. So whatdya say, @drpepper , wanna sponsor us??