Eric Martin teaches on the Bible, social movements, and theology at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA. He is co-editor of The Berrigan Letters and part of the Catholic Worker community.
The US Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter Open Wide Our Hearts seeks to assuage white guilt rather than inspire a courageous stand against white supremacy.
You discuss a God that both invites us to love our enemies, already incredibly challenging, and a God that also seems to allow, endorse, or sometimes invite violence against the oppressor in certain scriptural texts. Both are hard theological pills to swallow.
