Friday, March 26, 2004

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Dave Batstone is and always will be .........
a Greenbelt human ..........
a person who has spoken powerfully there and I have interviewed so powerfully there .........
and spoken at length with him in his home town of San Fran .............
here is a powerful quote from him from the website he drives ....... "Sojourners" ......
google will find it if you want it ............

I love this ................
".................. I took part in a Bible study in the refugee camp. I met Ana, a widow whose husband had been killed by the military because of his work as a community organizer within their local Catholic parish. She had come to the camp for the sake of her children. During the Bible study, Ana spoke a different kind of "theology of creation":

"I, as a mother, feel the weight of this war. In our country, the law of God is being violated.... A small amount of people are living the way that everyone should. There needs to be a change so that we can all live the way that God desires. Although we are treated like animals and receive no respect from those who have power in our country, we know that we are human beings because God loves us.
Isn't that what it means to be made in God's image?"

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