{"id":24305,"date":"2025-09-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?p=24305"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:28:59","slug":"resources-for-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2025\/09\/04\/resources-for-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this part of the world it\u2019s back to school season, a time to take inventory of supplies, arrange schedules, and restart routines. Although I&#8217;m not a teacher nor student right now, my work in vocation ministry has also put me in planning mode and I feel the crunch of time ticking away, eating up my sense of summer ease.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to reset some things in my life, to establish some steady rhythms that hold my sometimes-fragile heart and health, that provide the container for my spirit to thrive so I can still authentically show up to love and serve others no matter how heavy the state of the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the messiness of Christian living nowadays: we must respond to reality by staying in solidarity and acting in response to many needs, <em>plus <\/em>remain rooted in what\u2019s good, right, and just. Yes, we intimately know the horrors of injustice and crumbling systems yet<em> <\/em>remain hopeful, loving healers and activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wondered: what are the foundations that can feed my faith in action right now? I dove into the Messy Jesus Business archives for some inspiration. Some of what I found might serve you too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-messy-jesus-business wp-block-embed-messy-jesus-business\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1atJlJOxXu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2020\/01\/10\/back-to-the-basics-in-a-time-of-war\/\">Back to the basics in a time of war<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Back to the basics in a time of war&#8221; &#8212; Messy Jesus Business\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2020\/01\/10\/back-to-the-basics-in-a-time-of-war\/embed\/#?secret=Ru8WVk5nXF#?secret=1atJlJOxXu\" data-secret=\"1atJlJOxXu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I am striving to get back to the basics, I find it helpful to return to the Word of God, to pray with the Scriptures that say it straight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-messy-jesus-business wp-block-embed-messy-jesus-business\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CRigycHNje\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2024\/01\/11\/tough-mind-tender-heart\/\">Tough mind, tender heart<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Tough mind, tender heart&#8221; &#8212; Messy Jesus Business\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2024\/01\/11\/tough-mind-tender-heart\/embed\/#?secret=axE5yuTJFi#?secret=CRigycHNje\" data-secret=\"CRigycHNje\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKing cautions against maintaining a tough mind at the expense of our tender hearts, lamenting that a hard-hearted person \u201cis too cold to have affection for another and too self-centered to have joy in another\u2019s joy and sorrow in another\u2019s sorrow.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-messy-jesus-business wp-block-embed-messy-jesus-business\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hps8sI9qCx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2020\/05\/14\/hope-and-heartache-on-this-side-of-the-grave\/\">Hope and heartache on this side of the grave<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Hope and heartache on this side of the grave&#8221; &#8212; Messy Jesus Business\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2020\/05\/14\/hope-and-heartache-on-this-side-of-the-grave\/embed\/#?secret=jxTxZuy6Q2#?secret=hps8sI9qCx\" data-secret=\"hps8sI9qCx\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCreating new things that I aim to keep going demands a fierce hope from me \u2014 a hope that trusts in the graces of growth, progress and transformation along with an abundance of time, health and energy. A hope that trusts in God\u2019s timing and mysterious ways, and tends to the possibilities found in each small &#8216;yes&#8217; to love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-messy-jesus-business wp-block-embed-messy-jesus-business\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uZq5VvC4lI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2017\/01\/26\/the-wounds-of-christ-and-the-inauguration-of-donald-trump\/\">The wounds of Christ and the inauguration of Donald Trump<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The wounds of Christ and the inauguration of Donald Trump&#8221; &#8212; Messy Jesus Business\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2017\/01\/26\/the-wounds-of-christ-and-the-inauguration-of-donald-trump\/embed\/#?secret=qJzr0WQJj1#?secret=uZq5VvC4lI\" data-secret=\"uZq5VvC4lI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith all the news of heartache, fear and pain rapidly increasing in our world today, it seems we are stuck upon the cross, we are stuck in Good Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need not stay stuck. We believe in Easter Sunday and we know it is always coming in three days. We know that Christ\u2019s wounds upon his body have been transformed, glorified.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-messy-jesus-business wp-block-embed-messy-jesus-business\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wcMiA9kGiP\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2017\/03\/15\/anxious-resistance\/\">Anxious resistance<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Anxious resistance&#8221; &#8212; Messy Jesus Business\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2017\/03\/15\/anxious-resistance\/embed\/#?secret=yVmrR87t4D#?secret=wcMiA9kGiP\" data-secret=\"wcMiA9kGiP\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have also come to see the inevitable anxiousness as not only necessary but also sacramental. While I must be aware of my limits and the reality of unhealthy anxiety, especially in the form of mental illness, I see some level of anxiousness as a gift; a signpost on my journey toward Christian discipleship. An indication that\u2014with God\u2019s help\u2014I can to learn to embrace fear and then to let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-messy-jesus-business wp-block-embed-messy-jesus-business\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"id6GfrMOna\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2020\/08\/05\/lay-down-the-weapon-of-good-intention\/\">Lay down the weapon of good intention<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Lay down the weapon of good intention&#8221; &#8212; Messy Jesus Business\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2020\/08\/05\/lay-down-the-weapon-of-good-intention\/embed\/#?secret=i4fri0b1ch#?secret=id6GfrMOna\" data-secret=\"id6GfrMOna\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe trouble is that neither our very best intentions nor our deepest guilt and shame will fix racism. Yet many of us who were raised Catholic have quite a bit of both, so it will require a lot of patience and strength to recognize that neither will serve the deep transformation that we are being called to engage as white people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-messy-jesus-business wp-block-embed-messy-jesus-business\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Z7funbz9jI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2024\/06\/25\/the-opportunity-of-chaos\/\">The opportunity of chaos<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The opportunity of chaos&#8221; &#8212; Messy Jesus Business\" src=\"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2024\/06\/25\/the-opportunity-of-chaos\/embed\/#?secret=21h8QjEHpX#?secret=Z7funbz9jI\" data-secret=\"Z7funbz9jI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(a poem and a playlist!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we navigate these messy, beautiful and horrible times together, my prayer is that each of us is strengthened by a community of faith, by spirited people who encourage us and help us each know the graces of mercy and might. 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