Today we celebrate the refusal by liberation movements everywhere to allow death to be the final word. Today, we celebrate the moral choice to place the life of an impoverished person of color - conceived by a single mother out of wedlock and born in a filthy manger in an area of the world occupied by a brutal imperial force - at the center of history. For liberationists, Jesus was a working-class prophet whose teachings and life exemplified the subversive and seditious road toward the beloved community: loving one another, providing for one another, removing the powerful from their thrones and actively reorganizing society so that the poor and the sick are first and the rich and healthy are last. Christ was brutally executed by the state for this vision of love and community, but the story does not end there. The beloved community continues, it is resurrected in every truth spoken to power, in every act of justice by the oppressed, in every moment of reconciliation between the world-as-it-is and the world-as-it-should-be.
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