11:23:50 From  Dick  to  Everyone : Should the churches support violence?
11:24:26 From  Dick  to  Everyone : Does violence "work"
11:24:54 From  Dick  to  Everyone : Does BLM support Christian values?
11:29:27 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : With all due respect, black folks do speak up about "black-on-black" crime. We just don't listen to them.
11:35:23 From  Barbara Engh  to  Everyone : And all lives can't matter until black lives really do matter.
11:36:19 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : And to that point, Barb, can't we as Christians see that lives mattering is the bare minimum?
11:37:11 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : Sara an Barb, certainly that was one of Jesus’ main points!
11:37:15 From  Barbara Engh  to  Everyone : yes.  It's a bare minimum for sure.
11:41:05 From  Priscilla Bouic  to  Everyone : I thought the Cong. Meeting was before this meeting???
11:41:14 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : It was
11:41:20 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : It was very brief
11:41:43 From  Priscilla Bouic  to  Everyone : Thanks for the info.
11:44:29 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : I am relieved about that right now.
11:45:03 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : Ibram Kehndi
11:45:08 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : Stacey Abrams
11:45:16 From  Kristen Ross  to  Everyone : Martin Luther King used nonviolence 50 or 60 years ago. The Supreme Court overturned the voting rights law from that time that gave people of color protected rights. Now laws are being passed in state after state that limits their rights. The millenials feel that only small steps have been taken in 60 years.  Unfortunately we haven't cleared out systemic racism and the young people are angry.  Violence is never right. But when you hold people down generation after generation, they are going to explode.
11:45:21 From  Scotty Boy's iPad  to  Everyone : The pope?
11:45:22 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : The Obamas
11:46:01 From  Kristen Ross  to  Everyone : Reverend Barber
11:46:22 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : If it bleeds, it leads
11:46:46 From  Barbara Engh  to  Everyone : Thank you, Anne
11:46:54 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : Nailed it Mary and Ann
11:47:27 From  Barbara Engh  to  Everyone : There are many nonviolent leaders today, fortunately.  But they don't often get the press.
11:49:14 From  Barbara Engh  to  Everyone : many nonviolent efforts that Christians can take on.  Kneeling is a good example of nonviolence.
11:49:19 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : Brian Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative has made a big difference.
11:50:49 From  Kristen Ross  to  Everyone : It's 60 years since those leaders and we still have systemic racism.
11:51:29 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : “Be the Bridge” organization
11:51:38 From  Steve Donoian  to  Everyone : If we attack the problems by trying to change the laws of this Country in the right direction we can do that in a non violent way.
11:52:03 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : I think again that we need to further contextualize what type of violence (property v. people) we're talking about and examine why we count them as equal?
11:52:35 From  Kristen Ross  to  Everyone : Who is the leader of Black Lives Matter in you're opinion?  Who do you think is leading the violent movement.
11:52:42 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : Preemptive Love
11:53:16 From  Scotty Boy's iPad  to  Everyone : Sara, do you condone bombing abortion clinics?
11:53:42 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : Bethebridge.com
11:55:19 From  Ann Fleming  to  Everyone : Of course not. But the systemic violence against people is different than the reactionary destruction of property.
11:55:37 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : Abortion clinic bombings typically don't only target property. They intend to harm or kill the providers as well. They also intend to intimidate people obtaining abortion care.
11:55:53 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : Looting just doesn't do that.
11:56:36 From  Scotty Boy's iPad  to  Everyone : I’m talking about property only
11:56:38 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : But sadly too often the looting takes place in the poorer neighborhoods that are struggling to survive in the first place :(
11:57:07 From  Kristen Ross  to  Everyone : Is it possible to believe Black Lives Matter and not condone violence?
11:57:48 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : Is there an example of a clinic bombing that targeted property only?
11:58:29 From  Pastor Susan Graceson  to  Everyone : I have to leave a little early.  Great discussion.  Thanks to all who participated.
11:58:34 From  Scotty Boy's iPad  to  Everyone : Yes a Bowie pastor went to jail for one
11:59:04 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : There's an excellent street interview addressing the concerns that "looting targets poorer neighborhoods" because the folks in those neighborhoods have been limited in their ability to take part in business.
11:59:59 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : I think the of B’more neighborhood that lobbied for years to get a CVS, finally got one, and then it was destroyed in a riot. :’(
12:00:25 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : ""It would be a good thing for an abortionist to repent," Mr. Bray said. "But in as much as he is unrepentant and continuing in his deeds, in that context it is a good thing that one be terminated.""
12:00:51 From  Sara Huey  to  Everyone : I believe that's the man who perpetrated the Bowie bombings. Certainly doesn't seem like he was targeting property alone.
12:00:56 From  Kristen Ross  to  Everyone : Thanks for the stimulus for good discussion and all your work on this adult education, Dick.
12:01:30 From  Mary B  to  Everyone : Thank you Dick!  And Happy Mother’s Day Trudy!