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In Kyle Lambelet’s view, SOA Watch demonstrates the virtues of a messianic politics.

The protests confront us with a difficult question.

It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray.

Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Are the police meant to protect people? Or to fight them?

Last week in Louisville, I went to church.

I’d tell him a secret I learned from Eugene Peterson.

“There’s a fire that cannot be extinguished except by justice.”

They use the conventions of Jewish resistance poetry to challenge Roman occupation.

At the World Cup, Pussy Riot opened a window on authoritarianism.

The league—and many fans—treat them as cogs without agency.

School closures are difficult and disruptive. But this is how public protest works.

BLM is writing a new chapter in the history of black people's struggle for full equality. What are the implications for churches?

The young people leading this movement have heard enough about Martin Luther King's dream. It is not enough for church leaders to reply that they don't know much history.

The BLM movement has issued a clarion call to the church, the black church in particular, to affirm a theology of resistance, not respectability. This means reckoning with who Jesus is.

In the civil rights movement, language of political participation was central. BLM activists are making a more profound demand.

Putting up signs is great. Talking about racism together is even better.