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Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Gospel is political, but its not Nationalistic. Those who wish to tie our faith to the expansion and supremacy of the state miss the point the Divine is making on the cross.
The politics of Jesus are the politics of Love. Love for neighbor, love for self, love for enemy... To pick up the sword in the name of Christ is to deny both name and message
Jesus has no need of a Christian nation. Let's not waste our time on trying to legislate our morality.

Instead let us join the Divine in solidarity with those who suffer, the poor, the oppressed. Let us give ourselves over to Dreaming the Dream. To Divine Imagination.
To envisioning a world founded on Love, where Justice flows, where we see Christ in all people, and choose Love as the Way on which we place our feet.

#LoveIsTheWay

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Apr 26
A lot of hot takes out there about why young people get involved in crime...

Over the last decade I've served a diverse range of rangatahi (both rich and poor), many who've gotten on the "wrong side of the law".

Here's some things I've learnt...
1.There are no "bad kids" out there, only hurt ones. No matter how tough, scary, big, or bad, a young person may seem to you, when you take time to listen and hear what's going on under the surface the reality is a child who is hurting and really just asking to be seen.
2. Rich or poor, when YP feel disconnected from their whānau and community, ostracised and othered, they are more likely to become involved in crime. This disconnection can happen as a result of communities scape goating YP and expecting little of them (currently occurring atm)
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Nov 21, 2021
Sooooo many reckons about our homeless whānau on @NewstalkZB / @KerreMcIvor show.

The idea that somehow homeless whānau stealing Kai is about entitlement and lack of consequences fails to grasp the issue...
Let's put this in context. We have whānau, suffering from such extreme poverty that they are living on our streets. Many of these whānau are mentally unwell, have disabilities, and have exp significant truama in their lives. Materially they have little to nothing.
Accessing the benefit is also not that easy when ur sleeping rough. From the moment u walk in the door there are barriers, homeless whānau often report exp discrimination and that they don't get the support they need. Simple things like having a bank acc can become a barrier...
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Nov 21, 2021
"Moving a problem along, doesn't solve the problem." @_chloeswarbrick

About 4 yrs ago the business association in a community I was serving in decided that it wanted to do something about the rough sleeping whānau in our hood
There were some real challenges being exp, w/begging on the streets, pple suffering from complex MH/Addiction , extreme poverty and whānau who had no where else but the street to call home
The business association wanted us and the police to move the whānau on. Of course we knew this wouldn't solve the issue. We had whānau suffering from poverty and homelessness, that was the problem that needed addressing.
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Nov 19, 2021
This morning I had coffee with a bro who I know from way back whose living on the streets atm.

He shared with me some of what he's dealing with and we discussed how he's going in his recovery. It's been rough, and my heart broke as he shared with me a familiar story.
A story of how a system which is intended to help him, creates hoop after hoop for him to jump through, expects so much of him, let gives him so little.
A story of struggle, of fighting to change his circumstances, only to be pulled down again by the shackles of poverty and addiction that seem someàhow designed to keep him in "his place".
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Nov 18, 2021
There's a open letter to @_chloeswarbrick @phil_goff doing the rounds on redit regarding some of the challenges we're exp in the inner city due to the extreme levels of poverty, social exclusion, and truama our whānau are exp-ing. I'm not going to link to the letter but...
... there are a couple of points I want to address.

1) more police and tougher punishment won't make our city safer. The root of these issues are truama and a lack of access to our ppls basic human rights. Punishment does not bring healing, it simply causes more harm
2. If we're serious abt addressing the challenges our city is exp than we need 2 get serious about providing whānau w/housing, a liveable income, access to MH/health services, support tht meets their needs Poverty is the underlying issue, eradicate it, and we'll make some prgrss
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