Where are you going for No Kings Day this Saturday? WOW, Holy Week has never been more poignant in my lifetime with the backdrop of American Empire and the new secret police kidnapping and terrorizing people and the suicidal, illegal and immoral war in Iran. Walt and I will march here in our small town of Dallas Oregon. Later on Saturday I will be standing in solidarity with "the least of these" at the ICE Concentration Camp in Portland with clergy from many faiths. Rev. Bryan Jessup and Dr. Walt Rutherford will lead Palm Sunday worship here at the Mary Magdalene Retreat Center and Church for Our Common Home.
Click here for short video of Rev. Barber's voice. A Moral Movement to Save American, No Kings!This is not just a social movement. It is a Moral Movement. We need leadership from religious people. Voila! John Fugelsang is a comedian who has written a brilliant book, The Separation of Church verses Hate, showing religious inspiration and hope.
Please call me if you need support or want to pray during Holy Week. Please join us in person and online to celebrate Walt's 50th AA birthday and my 70th birthday all on Easter Sunday afternoon, April 5th. We will celebrate the Holy Union and Partnership of Jesus and Mary Magdalene on Easter Sunday.
"......for nearly every great injustice perpetrated throughout history by authoritarian Christianity, liberal and moderate Christians—and many conservatives, too—have fought back. Progressive Christians helped lead the battle to abolish slavery. They’ve opposed imperialism, segregation, and science denial; fought for humane conditions for the American worker and for an end to child labor. Throughout history, Christian reform movements have dared to critically engage authority with scripture and tradition, supporting compassion, social justice, and human rights, as Jesus did........St. Francis of Assisi left the Crusades and preached against war. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist, used the scriptures to shame white America out of the mutually destructive American apartheid of segregation.......Liberal and moderate Jesus-following Christians—and their allies—have the power to stand up to right-wing Christianity and call its adherents out on their own terms, using the very book fundamentalists wave around so bombastically. Never forget that the first-ever protest by a white person in this hemisphere against slavery and human rights abuses was against Columbus himself, led by his ship’s own Catholic priest, Bartolomé de Las Casas. There’s an inspiring true heritage of authentic Christianity, and it’s almost always manifested itself in resistance to Christian authoritarianism.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE... is a book about what Christianity started out as, what it became, and why it’s still worth fighting for. It’s about the grotesque mutation that is Christian nationalism and how fundamentalism has always been the opposite of Jesus, even though it gets most of the TV airtime. And it’ll show how the best of Christianity has always pushed back against the worst of it. This book is not an attack on God, Jesus, or Christianity. It’s not designed to ridicule people of faith or mock belief."
From my heart to yours in love,
Rev. Bonnie Tarwater Minister Church for Our Common Home 15435 Strong Road Dallas, Oregon 97338 (858) 248-5123 Zoom ID 3025719458 revtarwater@yahoo.com www.churchforourcommonhome.com www.ourcommonhomecounseling center.org