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police investigations, which have forced body cameras, and has given the President of forces United States a space in which to speak out on the disproportionate violence directed at the and brown people by the police. It is a mighty movementwhich isjust getting started. black immigrants we root in the neighborhoods we find ourselves in. I grew up in Dallas in what was As white and is now an Asian suburb. The people who were not white were few but there. l have a who grew up in all-black neighborhoods in Chicago, or in Queens in majority Indian friends history of the United States plants us firmly in a racist state. It was the liberation struggle of The ceoole in the U.S.. insbired in cart bv the places. Resonant with our own stories of black or exclusion. We should be the most strident. Those of us who found it hard to walk marginalization airports in 2002 and 2003, and who get mistaken for Latino, Black, Arab should not worry through clarifying that we are not; in the tradition of M. M. Thomas we have achieved blast otf. We find about so unwittingly in solidarity with the outcast that we are mistaken for them, or maybe ourselves Orientation Sexual people of Israel declare that living under slavery is better than dying in the struggle for freedom. “The leaders of revolutions raise the slogan: either freedom or death.... The awareness that their life’s The and sense of security rest with the system of slavery is deeply rooted, not only in the vocation but also in the oppressed. This in fact is the real spiritual slavery. In such a situation the oppressors will always view freedom and responsibility not as a means for the growth of humanity but oppressed let's tackle the most difficult social issue for ourcommunity. Sexuality. By this I mean Finally, and the LGBT movement, but there is more to be said about the idolatry of family homosexuality as culture which places many of our people outside of the bounds of our Christian structure We are actively creating other marginalized communities in which we could root communities. would happen if we accepted LGBT persons and taught a healthier understanding of human What in our churches? sexuality M. Thomas’s understanding of sites of freedom as space for the growth of humanity is profound. M. most of us some part of the justice work we are passionate about will be achieved in our lifetime, For it cannot be that the work is simply to make ourselves comfortable. It must be that those growing but where freedom is being sought are constantly drawing us because we are followers of Jesus. edges insight that in these places we must first confront our own fears is convicting. It is one thing to The our personal fears in working for our own liberation, but it is hard to consider that the fear of confront one’s comfort or privilege, even as a wandering, newly freed slave, might be what causes us to losing danger or evil when we should be hearing a crying out for liberation. see liberation is universal... ‘Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?’ says the "God's ‘Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians Lord. M. Thomas writes that where we see liberation we see the action of God. Not a spiritual liberation. It M. not solely personal and intemal, but in the acts of history which means movements of people for is Communities. recognized as one of them, as followers of Jesus. as a dangerzone." [p.95] ourselves to team about the marginalized, which isabsurd. A question. Are we enslaved to one understanding of family and an ordering of desire? from Kir?‘ (Amos 9:7) whether the(a people) recognize this truth or not. . ." [p.26]
And, as he says above in response to the Amos, whether the people acknowledge it or even freedom. it of God or not, God seems lo be involved in the very act of liberating, almost as if God is ask is the presence of God. In Galatians (5: 1), one of the earliest letters of Paul, he writes that it Liberation for freedom that Christ has set us free. As we are, in our true and lull humanity as M. M. Thomas is M.M. God the Liberator, trans. Rev.Dr. T. M. Philip, Thiruvalla, India: Christava Sahitya Thomas, 2004. . . Samithi, liberation. would say, the task for us is what work does that give us to do in this time and in this place.
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MADATHILPARAMPIL MAMMEN THOMAS 1
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Mrs. Mariamma Mammen Teacher Mother
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Mammen Thomas Family Arun,Thampy, A
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The Procession through the Tiruvall
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Ideological Quest Within Christian
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and Society Vol. 26 No. 1, March 19
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