'A beautiful responsibility': Documentary film will encapsulate history of Black Liberation Theology “It’s a journey of discovery,” says multiple Emmy-winning filmmaker and educator Dante James of his current project, a feature-length documentary on Black liberation theology. “Getting out into unchar...

'A beautiful responsibility': Documentary film will encapsulate history of Black Liberation Theology'

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It is the impossible joy of the marginalized that bears witness to a Life beyond our limited, bullshit worlds—beyond our shame. From Chapter 10 of Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life

If this world is.ever to be saved, its salvation will come from the margins to the center. It always has and it always will.

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Painting of Jesus being stripped by two roman soldiers, the vertical pole of the cross behind him. Text reads: "Above all else, crucifixion was a spectacle: the Roman Empire making a show of its brutality in order to terrorize dominated peoples into submission.

If you dared to resist the Roman Empire, you knew what end awaited you: You'd be stripped bare before a crowd and suffocated on a cross, your naked, battered flesh twisted into a warning to others to comply — or die.

This is how modern Empire functions as well. #crucifixion #godoftheoppressed