The Occupy Church

“I read in the Hebrew Scriptures that the land doesn’t belong to us – we are actually tenants of the land. The Lord is our landlord and we owe and account to God for how we are going to treat the land people on the land. We need to be really careful about strict ideas [...]

“Obviously there is some risk in making affection the pivot of an argument about economy. The charge will be made that affection is an emotion, merely “subjective,” and therefore that all affections are more or less equal: people may have affection for their children and their automobiles, their neighbors and their weapons. But the risk, [...]

“…regeneration, in addition to being a mystical reference to the world’s return to an Eden-like state, is about letting go of the envy and competitiveness being shown both by the young rich man and especially by Peter (who eventually won the big competition among the apostles and is regarded as the first pope, oddly enough).”

“God stands in judgment over our economic arrangements” [Micah] told us and quoted Luke 4:18-19. [He] told us that some secular Occupiers were uncomfortable with his particularly Christian outlook, whereas many clergy seem reticent to be too radical. There needs to be a challenge to the Christian dominionist view that the government should be run according to conservative Christian values. There [...]

This rampant illegality is what really astonishes me. …I never imagined how brazenly the biggest banks are engaging in outright illegal activity, nor how the court system goes right along with it! Occupy Our Homes DC will continue to work with residents of the DC metro area to expose these systematic unjust and illegal practices.

What Christians need to inject into this movement is two elements of biblical realism: (1) No activist and no theoretician has all the answers. The path to justice is lit by the heart of God, and only spiritual transformation will ensure a revolution that doesn’t simply install a new 1%. Dialogue and prayer are essential [...]

The events of the last six months have raised up countless new leaders with a huge range of experience, skills and spiritual gifts. This spring, we will begin the process of nurturing these emerging leaders, equipping ourselves for the work that God is calling us into. We know from first-hand experience that the Lord calls [...]

“…I am being healed through the working faith of the new branch of my faith family: Occupy Boston.  It is in participating in direct actions with Occupy Boston that we occupiers are healing each other and offering healing, as well.”