Reading the Bible inside a Jeepney: Celebrating Colonized and Occupied Peoples' capacity to beat swords into ploughshares; to transform weapons of mass destruction into instruments of mass celebration; mortar shells into church bells, teargas canisters to flowerpots; rifle barrels into flutes; U.S. Military Army Jeeps into Filipino Mass Transport Jeepneys.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Fish and Bread
Context: Antiquity. Roman Empire.
Colony. Palestine. Puppet government.
Caesarea. Tiberias. Cities in honor of emperors.
Dispossessed farmers. Dislocated fisherfolk.
Taxes and more taxes. Debts and mounting debts.
Text: The Gospels. Fishing all night. No catch.
Tending nets. No catch. Parables of Workers and Tenants in Vineyards.
Daily wages. Subsistence pay. No work.
Dispossessed farmers. Dislocated fisherfolk.
The Gospels: Thousands fed with bread and fish. A child offers five loaves and two fish.
A ritual of bread and fish. Taking sides with farmers and fisherfolk.
Then and now: Taking sides with those who need God the most.
Taking sides with those whose only hope is God.
Taking sides with farmers and fisherfolk.
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