Following Jesus in rejecting empire
My grandmother used to say we had some Cherokee blood She recalled her great-grandmother Sitting on the porch and smoking a corncob pipe But that memory is old and worn Trampled under the Swedish and the German and the English It was the European roots to the family tree which were nourished Those were the…
In preparation for this podcast I watched a 2009 episode of Gangland about the Fresno Bulldogs. It was a disturbing show. The callous disregard for human life, the exaltation of violence and the desire amp up absolute fear in the general population made the Bulldogs a kind of urban terrorist organization. But watching their violent…