“Justice is useless if it is only a vision of the future.” -Timothy W., a CLF member incarcerated in New York
How do we make justice real in the present?
“Justice is useless if it is only a vision of the future.” -Timothy W., a CLF member incarcerated in New York
How do we make justice real in the present?
“What if sometimes it’s about sparking potential into possibility, and possibility into existence?
What if sometimes the flame that burns in the chalice of our faith is nothing less than the ember of hope and nothing more than love set ablaze?
What if sometimes all we need do is follow this flame—one among scores, hundreds, thousands of steadily flickering flames across the land and among so many peoples—on the way to justice and into the land of peace?” -Lisa Doege
How has your potential been sparked into possibility?
“The religious responsibility of the faithful is to remove and dismantle the systems and structures that prevent the full flourishing of life and to enhance and side with the movement of creative and active love.” -Sheri Prud’homme
What does “creative and active love” mean to you?
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in 1875 noted that one of the things missing from US society was “a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice—a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of the nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God’s children.”
How might we work to make justice available to all?
If we are to work for the presence of Beloved Community in our midst, we have to dream it into being. We have to make something wholly new from what we have now.
What would be present for you in Beloved Community?