Spiritual Wisdom for Easter: Affirming the Resurrection
by: Rabbi Michael Lerner on April 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Easter Week, 1957. Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day helps defend the racially integrated Christian community, Koinonia Farm, in Americus, GA, against the KKK. This photo of her, we now learn from Koinonia, was probably taken at a different time.
With thanks to Brian McLaren for posting this (here).
From Peter Rollins on ways in which he denies the resurrection … and so do we all:
At one point in the proceedings someone asked if my theoretical position led me to denying the Resurrection of Christ. This question allowed me the opportunity to communicate clearly and concisely my thoughts on the subject, which I repeat here.
Without equivocation or hesitation I fully and completely admit that I deny the resurrection of Christ. This is something that anyone who knows me could tell you, and I am not afraid to say it publicly, no matter what some people may think…
I deny the resurrection of Christ every time I do not serve at the feet of the oppressed, each day that I turn my back on the poor; I deny the resurrection of Christ when I close my ears to the cries of the downtrodden and lend my support to an unjust and corrupt system.
However there are moments when I affirm that resurrection, few and far between as they are. I affirm it when I stand up for those who are forced to live on their knees, when I speak for those who have had their tongues torn out, when I cry for those who have no more tears left to shed.
Namasté Rabbi Michael Lerner and colleagues,
I thank you all for all you are doing in the spirit of ‘Tikkun olam’, often inspiring me to ‘affirm the resurrection’ more actively of Yeshua ben Joseph, Messiah.
The photo posted here ‘Easter Week, 1957. Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day helps defend the racially integrated Christian community, Koinonia Farm, in Americus, GA, against the KKK.’ throws a particular light on the year of my birth. Currently living in Montreal QC Canada, I was in fact born in March 1957 in the Seychelles Islands, then a British colony. As I write these words I realise that, that year as for many years before, now, and many more to come, the one and only sun was shining indiscriminately for one and all and will continue to do so…
May each and everyone cultivate gratitude so we may all enjoy bountiful harvests of compassion, nourishing us to better bear the vulnerability of our humanity, one and all created in the image of One Creator.
Shalom!
TX
I love & honor the words of the prayer or poem of “when” we are resurrected, for that is when we re-member who we are, & our One-ness with all of life, with all that is, with Ha’Shem. There is no death; not for anyone. LIfetimes may end, but life eternal continues, as each of us travels toward a greater appreciation of who we are, of why we are here, & how we can learn to act in concert with the highest & best unfolding for the whole of life. When we “see” another through a label we too easily forget that the same energy that gives breath to us, breathes within them: In other words, we forget that “they” are another one of us, no more or less.
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