{"id":6398,"date":"2019-08-13T23:27:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T03:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2019-08-13T23:27:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T03:27:36","slug":"solidarity-with-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity with Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Boyle-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Boyle-28.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Boyle-28-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Boyle-28-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>You actually abolish slavery by accompanying the slave. We don&#8217;t strategize our way out of slavery, we solidarize, if you will, our way toward its demise. We stand in solidarity with the slave, and by so doing, we diminish slavery&#8217;s ability to stand. By casting our lot with the gang member, we hasten the demise of demonizing. All Jesus asks is, <em>&#8220;Where are you standing?&#8221;<\/em> And after chilling defeat and soul-numbing failure, He asks again, &#8220;Are you still standing there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can we stay faithful and persistent in our fidelity even when things seem not to succeed? I suppose Jesus could have chosen a strategy that worked better (evidence-based outcomes) &#8212; that didn&#8217;t end in the Cross &#8212; but he couldn&#8217;t find a strategy more soaked with fidelity than the one he embraced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><em>Tattoos on the Heart<\/em><\/a>, p. 173<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Staffa Island, Scotland, July 13, 2003<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You actually abolish slavery by accompanying the slave. We don&#8217;t strategize our way out of slavery, we solidarize, if you will, our way toward its demise. We stand in solidarity with the slave, and by so doing, we diminish slavery&#8217;s ability to stand. By casting our lot with the gang member, we hasten the demise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17,37,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-compassion","category-connection","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}