Sunday 5

1. Michelle Alexander on revolutionary love is what we need in this moment of bloodshed and anxiety. Of MLK’s Vietnam War opposition, quite unpopular at the time, she writes: “He was right about what is required of us now: to speak and to act with unprecedented courage and with love. To oppose all forms of hate and racism, including antisemitism and Islamophobia. To oppose any policy and any economic system that places profit over people. And to reject militarism and state violence as the answer to our most profound, seemingly intractable conflicts and struggles.” Amen. Amen. Amen.

   

   Spring has sprung in Oakland, y’all. Just so so pretty.

2. “Pity is just the paternalistic cousin of contempt.” God, Nadia Bolz-Weber is good.