We Choose to Come Together and Choose Life

Marie Dennis

Our world is deeply fractured. We see the symptoms all around us. We see it in politics. We see it in social media. We need to come together as never before to address our environmental and climate crises, to resist authoritarian movements that have the power of billionaires, the power of social media and AI, at their disposal to divide us further and further. We need to come together to explore better ways of living with ourselves, with one another, and with this sacred beautiful earth.  (CAC faculty member Brian McClaren)

Whether we have 10 months or 10 years ahead of us, we, individually and collectively as the Affiliate Movement, are people of faith, committed to a just world where ALL people are respected and given a fair chance to live a happy life. These days, it is very hard not to feel impotent when confronted with autocratic power

QUESTION: How then can we as the global Affiliate Movement come together as one body to effectively stand up to that which is the opposite of the deepest gospel values?!  If there is a collective willingness to come together as one voice, then all that is needed is to determine the strategy that, with humble, gracious confidence, will help us to know the details of how we can respond.

On Wednesday, February 4 at 7:00pm ET, VOICES will hold its second gathering. We feel especially grateful the Marie Dennis will speak to nonviolence as a strategy, even more, as a way of life for confronting unhinged power and greed that dispenses with anyone or anything that doesn’t align with their anti-democratic and anti-gospel dystopian vision. Nonviolence is not an option for passivity. It is a life commitment that can give courage to one’s soul and an effective strategy for confronting malfeasance of all varieties. Jesus embraced a nonviolent way of life.

Marie will speak for 20 minutes followed by breakout conversations and a brief plenary. Please save the date February 4th at 7:00pm ET…4:00pm PT

 A zoom link will follow as the time gets closer.