Comments on: Challenged & Hopeful https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/14/challenged-hopeful/ A Global Immersion Site Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:48:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Kassandra Quick-Vana https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/14/challenged-hopeful/#comment-519 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:47:40 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1965#comment-519 Thanks Claire for this reflection. I particularly like your ending statement: I wondered about how to become a “good threat” to power in a productive way that leads to liberation. It reminds me of a favorite quote spoken by Civil Rights leader Representative John Lewis. He said: “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” He is one who definitely suffered the consequences of standing up to power. And while I don’t mind being the one who draws attention to the disparity of power, I have not suffered any consequences beyond making others uncomfortable and sometimes angry. I would like to think I would still be willing to cause this “good trouble”” even when there are real consequences but if I am being completely honest, I just don’t know.

]]> By: Kelly Fassett https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/14/challenged-hopeful/#comment-514 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:50:33 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1965#comment-514 I really appreciate your reflection on power and think it is so key to all that is happening today. It seems like the drive to hoard money, wealth, and power is the root of so many evils and harm in our world. I wonder how we can call people to a higher place, when in doing so, this very act is threatening their power.

Again, I wondered first if I have subconsciously clung to power at the cost to others. And then I reflected on experiences where I have come across as threatening to others. I wondered about how to become a “good threat” to power in a productive way that leads to liberation.

]]> By: Dave Creel https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2025/02/14/challenged-hopeful/#comment-486 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:23:35 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1965#comment-486 I love the idea of being a “good threat” to power. This is such a profound concept that is so uniquely Christ-like at its core. I appreciate the vulnerable way you took the critiques of power and weighed them against your own choices/experiences. I resonate with the desire to consider our blind spots so that we can avoid the same pitfalls in our own areas of leadership. I wonder how we might move forward in compassionate love while still gaining ground against the deeply entrenched powers that are willing to harm those they are leading.

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