Liberation Theology
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Liberation theology is a movement within various religious traditions that emphasizes the importance of social justice and the rights of the poor and oppressed. It teaches that faith should actively address and transform social inequality.
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Please join us in the base communities of liberation theology. Across multiple religions, explore God's preferential option for the poor and marginalized.
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What does it mean to stand by an indigenous population who is being pushed out by a colonizing force? Sheila McCarthy and a fellow Catholic Worker share their observations from their five-week mission.
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Catholic Workers Decry Colonial Expansion in the U.S. and Palestine
What does it mean to stand by an indigenous population who is being pushed out by a colonizing force? Sheila McCarthy and a fellow Catholic Worker share their observations from their five-week mission
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November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What does it mean to stand by an indigenous population who is being pushed out by a colonizing force? Sheila McCarthy and a fellow Catholic Worker share their observations from their five-week mission.
#thecatholicworker
#thecatholicworker
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Reflections of an Online Nervous Breakdown - Importance of Kinship & Catholic Social Justice youtu.be/JxCLnnKam0o?...
Reflections of an Online Nervous Breakdown - Importance of Kinship & Catholic Social Justice
YouTube video by Ordinary (Ruined) Catholic
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November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Reflections of an Online Nervous Breakdown - Importance of Kinship & Catholic Social Justice youtu.be/JxCLnnKam0o?...
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“[Pope Francis] wore the blood-stained rope belt worn by Archbishop Romero when he was murdered …”
The fact that Jimmy Carter was so often framed as a human rights hero is pretty wild given how much blood of tortured Salvadorean activists he was directly responsible for. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Jimmy Carter's Dark Legacy in El Salvador
Carter’s administration rejected Saint Óscar Romero’s pleas not to provide military aid to the Salvadoran junta before he was assassinated.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“[Pope Francis] wore the blood-stained rope belt worn by Archbishop Romero when he was murdered …”
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Pentecostalism has been in the Caribbean since the 1910's and 1920's HOWEVER it was a completely different brand than what you may see in Latin America today. The organizations that are fueling and funding it are groups pushing a white version of American Christianity to stop Liberation Theology
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pentecostalism has been in the Caribbean since the 1910's and 1920's HOWEVER it was a completely different brand than what you may see in Latin America today. The organizations that are fueling and funding it are groups pushing a white version of American Christianity to stop Liberation Theology
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The MAGAs who suddenly pretend to care about African Christians being killed in Nigeria are the same ones who openly ridicule Black Christians being murdered by police in America & celebrate Latino Christians being rounded up, tortured, & deported from America
So let's talk Facts on Nigeria:
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So let's talk Facts on Nigeria:
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November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The MAGAs who suddenly pretend to care about African Christians being killed in Nigeria are the same ones who openly ridicule Black Christians being murdered by police in America & celebrate Latino Christians being rounded up, tortured, & deported from America
So let's talk Facts on Nigeria:
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So let's talk Facts on Nigeria:
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My co-authored book with @mattbernico.bsky.social on degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology is out this May!
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November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
My co-authored book with @mattbernico.bsky.social on degrowth, capitalism, and liberation theology is out this May!
www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...
www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...
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If you missed it, this episode goes deep into antifascist parenting, the pressures families face, and the long history of religious antifascism and liberation theology. We also talk about class, care work, and why kids pick up on inequality so fast.
Antifascism Begins At Home with Matthew Remski
In this episode, I talk with Matthew Remski from Conspirituality and his new project, Antifascist Dad. We dig into the work he has been doing on masculinity, parenting, and the rise of authoritarian politics. We talk about the difference between liberal parenting and antifascist parenting, how kids
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November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you missed it, this episode goes deep into antifascist parenting, the pressures families face, and the long history of religious antifascism and liberation theology. We also talk about class, care work, and why kids pick up on inequality so fast.
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Peter Mayo writes in our latest Classic Texts article on Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education", and the impact of this seminal work on community development and critical sociology buff.ly/9XaClcf #CDJ #ClassicText
A Freirean watershed
2025 marks the coming into reprint, after so many years, of Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’ s Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education (Shor
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November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Peter Mayo writes in our latest Classic Texts article on Ira Shor and Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of Liberation. Dialogues on Transforming Education", and the impact of this seminal work on community development and critical sociology buff.ly/9XaClcf #CDJ #ClassicText
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Dorothee Soëlle was my introduction to liberation theology only four years ago now. I started with Choosing Life and followed with Thinking about God, then Gutierrez and Cone.
My book would be this one. It asks what is God's mandate towards sharing with the poor.
My book would be this one. It asks what is God's mandate towards sharing with the poor.
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Dorothee Soëlle was my introduction to liberation theology only four years ago now. I started with Choosing Life and followed with Thinking about God, then Gutierrez and Cone.
My book would be this one. It asks what is God's mandate towards sharing with the poor.
My book would be this one. It asks what is God's mandate towards sharing with the poor.
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Staten Island honors Dorothy Day: Memorial Mass marks anniversary and push for sainthood
Staten Island honors Dorothy Day: Memorial Mass marks anniversary and push for sainthood
The Catholic Worker of Staten Island will gather for a memorial Mass on Saturday, Nov. 29, at St. Peter’s R.C. Church in New Brighton at 11 a.m.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Staten Island honors Dorothy Day: Memorial Mass marks anniversary and push for sainthood
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Phenomenology of Resistance
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I analyze the emergence of collective agency and organizational structures of collective action and the possibilities for effective resistance of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton.
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I analyze the emergence of collective agency and organizational structures of collective action and the possibilities for effective resistance of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Phenomenology of Resistance
QuantitativeResearch
I analyze the emergence of collective agency and organizational structures of collective action and the possibilities for effective resistance of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton.
QuantitativeResearch
I analyze the emergence of collective agency and organizational structures of collective action and the possibilities for effective resistance of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton.
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The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.
Viola Fletcher was there.
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Viola Fletcher was there.
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Viola Fletcher, Among Last Known Survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
Mother Fletcher's legacy will live on as the epitome of honor, courage, strength, and resilience in the face of violent terrorism, white supremacy, and cowardice
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November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
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In today’s guest post, Tim Whitaker shares about his conservative Christian upbringing & how he came to understand lies told to him about Islam.
I’m proud to publish this piece & show that, as friends of different faiths, we can stand united & protect one another’s humanity and right to worship
I’m proud to publish this piece & show that, as friends of different faiths, we can stand united & protect one another’s humanity and right to worship
Guest Post: Former Christian Evangelical On The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Tim Whitaker on why his faith as a Christian calls on him to counter attacks on Muslims
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November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In today’s guest post, Tim Whitaker shares about his conservative Christian upbringing & how he came to understand lies told to him about Islam.
I’m proud to publish this piece & show that, as friends of different faiths, we can stand united & protect one another’s humanity and right to worship
I’m proud to publish this piece & show that, as friends of different faiths, we can stand united & protect one another’s humanity and right to worship
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History reminder: the Prophet invited Christians to worship inside his mosque. Meanwhile, Christian nationalists are harassing Muslims simply for existing in public spaces. I launched Islam Today to push back with truth while corporate media ignores the rise in anti-Muslim hate entirely. Read now:
Humanity and Christian-Muslim Unity
A response to Nationalist Christians harassing American Muslims while they prayed
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November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
History reminder: the Prophet invited Christians to worship inside his mosque. Meanwhile, Christian nationalists are harassing Muslims simply for existing in public spaces. I launched Islam Today to push back with truth while corporate media ignores the rise in anti-Muslim hate entirely. Read now:
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Imagine we put all the energy we focus on trans kids on billionaires instead 🧐
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Imagine we put all the energy we focus on trans kids on billionaires instead 🧐
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Anne Frank & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in 1929. Viola Fletcher, who just died this week, was already 15 when they were born.
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Anne Frank & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in 1929. Viola Fletcher, who just died this week, was already 15 when they were born.
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
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IDK who needs to hear this, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's a synagogue is absolutely wrong, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's hosting an info session about how U.S. Jews can buy real estate in Palestinian territories is absolutely fine and good.
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
IDK who needs to hear this, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's a synagogue is absolutely wrong, but protesting outside a synagogue because it's hosting an info session about how U.S. Jews can buy real estate in Palestinian territories is absolutely fine and good.
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Hawkeye WR Seth Anderson showed up BIG - donating 30 turkeys to the Iowa City Catholic Worker! Defensive backs Kael Kolarik and Koen Entringer jumped in to help distribute them to volunteers who’ll roast & share them with immigrant families across our community. That’s what teamwork looks like ! 🏈🙌
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hawkeye WR Seth Anderson showed up BIG - donating 30 turkeys to the Iowa City Catholic Worker! Defensive backs Kael Kolarik and Koen Entringer jumped in to help distribute them to volunteers who’ll roast & share them with immigrant families across our community. That’s what teamwork looks like ! 🏈🙌
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I will ask this with a twist:
What's a text along these lines that you've read in recent years even though you may not be Jewish or Christian?
I don't mean texts about atheism or agnosticism here, but texts about this topic that maybe held some meaning or interest for you despite your positions.
What's a text along these lines that you've read in recent years even though you may not be Jewish or Christian?
I don't mean texts about atheism or agnosticism here, but texts about this topic that maybe held some meaning or interest for you despite your positions.
what is your favorite book of Biblical scholarship or interpretation?
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I will ask this with a twist:
What's a text along these lines that you've read in recent years even though you may not be Jewish or Christian?
I don't mean texts about atheism or agnosticism here, but texts about this topic that maybe held some meaning or interest for you despite your positions.
What's a text along these lines that you've read in recent years even though you may not be Jewish or Christian?
I don't mean texts about atheism or agnosticism here, but texts about this topic that maybe held some meaning or interest for you despite your positions.
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For disclosure, I come from a position of agnosticism, but with a strong childhood background in Christian fundamentalism. I hold an undergraduate degree in anthropology.
I maintain that religion remains one of the most important topics of modern cultural study regardless of personal belief.
I maintain that religion remains one of the most important topics of modern cultural study regardless of personal belief.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
For disclosure, I come from a position of agnosticism, but with a strong childhood background in Christian fundamentalism. I hold an undergraduate degree in anthropology.
I maintain that religion remains one of the most important topics of modern cultural study regardless of personal belief.
I maintain that religion remains one of the most important topics of modern cultural study regardless of personal belief.
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As I stated in the original poster's thread, the book that stayed with me over the last few years is Dorothee Soelle's "Suffering" (1973). She was a German liberation theologian. I think that the text has many problems, but there are some fundamental themes within it that resonated with me.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As I stated in the original poster's thread, the book that stayed with me over the last few years is Dorothee Soelle's "Suffering" (1973). She was a German liberation theologian. I think that the text has many problems, but there are some fundamental themes within it that resonated with me.
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While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
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NEW: Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
NEW: Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social