Welcome to the Occupation



I have spent most of last week working on a story on Occupy Vancouver. The piece I wrote will come out in the light magazine the first week of December. (www.thelight.ca).

I have written an article every month for the past year for the light. One article I wrote generated a plethora of responses. It was called "the false mask of ministry" It was mainly about th epressure pastors feel in putting on a brave face, or a false mask in order to do their jobs. That is, Christian communities are environments where authenticity and honesty are not allowed.

Just this weekend I received an e-mail from a pastor in Norway thanking me for that article!

I feel that my piece on Occupy will generate a lot of comment as well.

Here's a teaser and preview:

Could the Occupy Movement be a movement of the Spirit to awaken the world to the cry emanating out of the very heart of God? Indeed, as I spoke to people at the site, the theme of injustice and inequality kept coming up over and over. I heard more talk about justice, economic equality and homelessness in the few brief hours at the site, then I have in all the decades I have spent in evangelical churches.

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David Warkentin said…
Looking forward to your article Santosh! From out here in the 'burbs it's hard to know what's going on and who's telling the truth, etc... Somehow I wonder if the media is always presenting the whole picture. Surprise surprise!
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