Description: Christian Citizen is an online publication for American Baptists and other diverse voices responding to current events and contemporary issues. We feature articles and essays that intersect faith, politics, discipleship, and citizenship while examining public concerns ranging from gun violence, racism, trauma, and sexual violence to poverty, food insecurity, disabilities, and immigration.
How can we serve the people of Georgia – our brothers, sisters, and siblings in Christ and in the wider human race – as the country of Egypt once served the Holy Family as they fled Bethlehem and the tyrant Herod?
Nonviolent resistance is about peacefully but decidedly disrupting oppressive tactics. Although it sometimes puts the person engaged in it at risk of things like arrest or violence themselves, when done well, it uses creativity, self-sacrifice, and solidarity to affirm the humanity of the vulnerable.
Love as described by Jesus is not morally disengaged. It is, and always has been, countercultural. It is also a challenge, particularly when people, including ourselves, are often not lovable.