We cannot be those who merely love the tombs of the prophets. We do not celebrate assassinations and killings of our prophets. We find the place they fell; we reach down in the blood; we pick up the baton and carry it forward. And we must.
Preachers don't get to stay out of politics. We are either chaplains of empire or prophets of God.
How do you take two or three Scriptures and make a theology out of it, and claim it is the moral perspective, and leave 2,000 on the table? That is a form of theological malpractice.
Some issues are not left or right or liberal versus conservative. They are right versus wrong.
I am concerned about those who say so much about which God says so little, and who say so little about which God says so much.
I'm reminded of what Dr. King said after four little girls were murdered in an Alabama church: "We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer."
[W]e can never know the ecstasy of true hope without attending to the tragic realities of the poor and forgotten. from The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement