{"id":9731,"date":"2026-04-23T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:47:12","slug":"power-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9731","title":{"rendered":"Power With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armas3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armas3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armas3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armas3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armas3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armas3-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Armas3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Jesus gave up power and privilege to stand in solidarity with humanity.  In this way, the Spirit of God sets aside power-over in favor of <em>power-with<\/em> for the sake of justice.  Where power-over is marked by dominance, coercion, and control, power-with is marked by collaboration and cocreation.  It is a power rooted in collective action and relationship.  A God who invites us to &#8220;argue it out&#8221; is a God of power-with, power shared.  This God is dynamic: one who feels, who responds to our pleas, and who can be accessed by humans.  This is a God many of us were not introduced to but had to discover on our own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kat Armas, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/sacred_belonging.html\">Sacred Belonging<\/a><\/em>, p. 62<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bluebells at Bull Run Regional Park, Virginia, April 3, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Jesus gave up power and privilege to stand in solidarity with humanity. In this way, the Spirit of God sets aside power-over in favor of power-with for the sake of justice. Where power-over is marked by dominance, coercion, and control, power-with is marked by collaboration and cocreation. It is a power rooted in collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-god","category-jesus","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731","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=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9734,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}