WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.
We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
POV.
"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796
"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." Unamuno
"Imagine All the People Sharing All the World." John Lennon
"If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees." Father Philip Francis Berrigan
"You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down." Tom Petty
"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." Emma Goldman
"We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet." Charlie Rose, 2005
Only in Solidarity do "We have it in our power to begin the world again" Tom Paine
"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
DO SOMETHING!
Photo of George shown here and in web site banner courtesy of Debbie Hill, 2000.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence
The New Body of Christ: 5th in A Greater Awakening Series
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."-Proverbs 29:18
The
ancients understood that God spoke to them in their dreams and visions.
The ancients told those stories around the camp fires and those stories
grew by the flame enkindled in the hearer's hearts; transforming them
into story tellers too.
In the gospel [good
news] told in Mark 3: 31-35, the mother of Jesus' and his brothers
arrived at the house where he was teaching.
Standing outside,
they sent word to Jesus and called him out. The crowd around Jesus told
him, "Your mother, sisters and brothers are outside asking for you."
Jesus
replied, "I am here with my mother, sisters and brothers. For whoever
does the will of God is my brother, sister and mother."-Mark 3: 31-35
And in Micah 6:8 if we have eyes to see, we will KNOW:
"What does God require? He has told you o'man! Be just, be merciful, and walk humbly with your Lord."
Being
just means correct, true, accurate, right and fair.
Merciful is to
have, feel and show compassion, that sense of viscerally feeling the
pain of another and being moved to help.
Being humble is knowing
yourself; the good and the bad, for both cut through every human heart.
All
Christians-from the most fundamental to those left of the
progressives-are connected to the other as a sister and brother in the
mystical Body of Christ. It is a dysfunctional family in the US and
way past time to liberate Jesus from the bondage of institutional
patriarchy for no church owns Jesus and no religion owns God.
HOW do we get there? It begins in the heart and imagination, where all human creativity is birthed.
In
2003, I read an article in Presence Magazine written by a pastor of a
church in Berkeley. I no longer remember what the article was about, but he inspired
me to email him a few of my theological questions.
He replied something
like this;
I once gave a sermon that began with the story of Rabbi Hillel, who lived 100 years before Jesus walked the earth.
Rabbi
Hillel understood the Hebrew understanding of Hokema; Holy Wisdom; The
Feminine Divinity, was the same as the Greek understanding of The
Logos: The Word.
It was Saints John and Paul that understood The Logos: The Word was Jesus.
So
with a little imagination you can imagine that before Jesus walked the
earth a man, he was already a she; The Word, Holy Wisdom, Hokema, the
feminine divinity.
I gave that sermon to a mainline conservative congregation. It didn't go over well...
It
read like GREAT news to me!
Ever since the days of Eve until the days of JC,
the feminine was not equally valued.
Jesus is the first known man to
blow apart the societal and religious taboos of speaking with females as fully equal.
Just one more example of how the male disciples would not, could not follow
Jesus THAT closely! And "Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system"-DorothyDay
Later male disciples, the Protestant Reformers,
would not, could not accept the Book of Wisdom and threw it out of
their canon, but the Catholics include it in their bible. It has been
said that some thought the Book of Wisdom was too Jewish or perhaps too
feminine.
The Book of Wisdom defines wisdom as: a spirit
intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, agile, clear, unstained,
and certain. Not baneful, but loving the good. Keen, unhampered,
beneficent, kind, firm, secure, all-powerful, all-seeing and pervading
all spirits.
Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion and SHE
penetrates and pervades all things by reason. SHE is the aura of the
might of God and a pure effusion of the glory of The Almighty. SHE is
the refulgence of eternal Light, a spotless mirror of the power of God.
And SHE who is one, can do all things and renews everything, and
passing into holy souls from age to age, SHE produces friends of God
and prophets.- WISDOM 7:22-8:1
Wisdom has built her house and
SHE calls to all;"Come, eat my food and drink my wine and you will
live abundant life and walk in the ways of understanding." -Proverbs 9
Number
9 Number 9 Number 9....Let all who are little come in here, Wisdom has
built her house; come eat her food and drink her wine and walk in the
ways of understanding...I'm so very small I'm so very
small; already within the heart of every atom yet extend Beyond the
Universe and connect every mother and child....Number 9 Number 9 Number
9...
Wisdom calls; "I have built it; will you come? Do you have eyes to see and ears to hear?
Holy Wisdom, the Feminine Divinity: Hokema,
Who was with The Word from the very beginning,
She is One with Him and He with Her;
Pure Being; One God;
One Creator and One Lover of All the Human Family,
Hokema; Holy Wisdom;, The Feminine Divinity
Same as The Logos: The Word:
Have you heard the word is love and the word is just the way
"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel