Anyone who says Charlie Kirk was a Martyr isn't using the same definition for Martyr as the historic church.
I'm not a Quaker, but I try to be a pacifist. (I'm also not totally bought in on Total Depravity so maybe I'm more in agreement with Quakers than I realized.) The anecdotes of Dyer and Woolman were striking in their moral clarity. And while I do think freedom of speech is the lynchpin of any multi-religious liberalism. I have stopped making 'American' my main identifier when I engage in the public square. Nation-states are inherently violent. My hope isn't that America gets better. Although I do wish for that. My expectation is that divine intervention is the only thing that can rescue us from ourselves.
Great piece Gemma!
Anyone who says Charlie Kirk was a Martyr isn't using the same definition for Martyr as the historic church.
I'm not a Quaker, but I try to be a pacifist. (I'm also not totally bought in on Total Depravity so maybe I'm more in agreement with Quakers than I realized.) The anecdotes of Dyer and Woolman were striking in their moral clarity. And while I do think freedom of speech is the lynchpin of any multi-religious liberalism. I have stopped making 'American' my main identifier when I engage in the public square. Nation-states are inherently violent. My hope isn't that America gets better. Although I do wish for that. My expectation is that divine intervention is the only thing that can rescue us from ourselves.
"Jesus, come quickly."