This is a short follow-up to my previous posting connecting the Spirit of Divine Love to the protests, speeches, dances, songs and celebrations in the streets of our cities of late.
Commonweal (tied in my voting with America for best, and quite different, US Catholic periodicals) just published a spirited essay by M. Shawn Copland, one of the major voices in US theology, titled “Breath and Fire — The Spirit Moves Us Toward Racial Justice.”
I can’t recommend it highly enough. It is rich with scriptural reference and explanation. It’s also rich with the rhythms of black preaching. And since it’s a bit long, I recommend reading slowly, listening to each paragraph for the black preacher’s (in this case a black woman’s) biblical sense and repeated challenging calls. For not only is this fine writing and very good theology, but it is constant in its gospel challenge. Something I’m not always very good in responding to.
