Comments for Sandhya Jha http://sandhyajha.com Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:01:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King by Lucas Milliken http://sandhyajha.com/2010/01/let-us-turn-our-thoughts-today-to-martin-luther-king/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Lucas Milliken Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:01:09 +0000 http://sandhyajha.com/?p=104#comment-30 I heard a story last night about a conversation that happened during one of the Civil Rights Movement Marches between a younger activist and an older activist. The younger activist, anxious, eagerly asked the older, "When we get there, do you think we'll win?" To which the older activist replied, "Son, we won when we started this walk." I too choke up at the acknowledgement that the song is still in the future tense, but I like that it is unwavering in its certainty regarding the outcome of the struggle. That it has remained so powerfully meaningful to so many generations precisely because the people singing it know it is so deeply and profoundly TRUE. And to be engaged in the struggle in any way assures us of victory. We shall overcome. In truth, we already have. Now, it's just a matter of revealing that truth to those who do not yet know it. I heard a story last night about a conversation that happened during one of the Civil Rights Movement Marches between a younger activist and an older activist.
The younger activist, anxious, eagerly asked the older, “When we get there, do you think we’ll win?”
To which the older activist replied, “Son, we won when we started this walk.”

I too choke up at the acknowledgement that the song is still in the future tense, but I like that it is unwavering in its certainty regarding the outcome of the struggle. That it has remained so powerfully meaningful to so many generations precisely because the people singing it know it is so deeply and profoundly TRUE. And to be engaged in the struggle in any way assures us of victory. We shall overcome. In truth, we already have. Now, it’s just a matter of revealing that truth to those who do not yet know it.

]]> Comment on All we are saying is… by Sunil http://sandhyajha.com/2009/10/all-we-are-saying-is/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Sunil Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:09:00 +0000 http://sandhyajha.com/?p=99#comment-28 Good Analysis. Well written. Good Analysis. Well written.

]]> Comment on Aizwal, Mizoram…tribal theologies and gratitude for the gospel by Rachel Rev http://sandhyajha.com/2009/10/aizwal-mizoram-tribal-theologies-and-gratitude-for-the-gospel/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Rachel Rev Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:49:17 +0000 http://sandhyajha.com/?p=95#comment-26 I recall a very random meeting of a woman who had previously worked at (and been born in) the hospital built by my great-grandparents in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), where they had served as missionaries for 50+ years. At the time I met her, I was just beginning to understand the concepts of colonialism and imperialism (and just what a racist a-hole Cecil John Rhodes was). I, in all my liberal whiteness, felt guilty for the oppressive sins of my ancestors. But the woman expressed that she felt it was a great honor to meet a descendent of those missionaries who had done such good work for her community. She had grown up hearing the stories of my family who had "converted" her family to their vibrant, empowering Christian faith. I recall a very random meeting of a woman who had previously worked at (and been born in) the hospital built by my great-grandparents in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), where they had served as missionaries for 50+ years. At the time I met her, I was just beginning to understand the concepts of colonialism and imperialism (and just what a racist a-hole Cecil John Rhodes was). I, in all my liberal whiteness, felt guilty for the oppressive sins of my ancestors. But the woman expressed that she felt it was a great honor to meet a descendent of those missionaries who had done such good work for her community. She had grown up hearing the stories of my family who had “converted” her family to their vibrant, empowering Christian faith.

]]> Comment on Aizwal, Mizoram…tribal theologies and gratitude for the gospel by Allan http://sandhyajha.com/2009/10/aizwal-mizoram-tribal-theologies-and-gratitude-for-the-gospel/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Allan Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:48:14 +0000 http://sandhyajha.com/?p=95#comment-25 My mother met Thomas Thangaraj while she was doing a masters in divinity (MD? Surely not) at Emory. She spoke very highly of him, and liked both _The Crucified Guru_ and another book called _Relating to People of Other Religions: What Every Christian Needs to Know_. My mother met Thomas Thangaraj while she was doing a masters in divinity (MD? Surely not) at Emory. She spoke very highly of him, and liked both _The Crucified Guru_ and another book called _Relating to People of Other Religions: What Every Christian Needs to Know_.

]]> Comment on this is the seminary Union in New York wishes it could be by Allan http://sandhyajha.com/2009/10/this-is-the-seminary-union-in-new-york-wishes-it-could-be/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Allan Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:47:36 +0000 http://sandhyajha.com/?p=93#comment-23 That's a fascinating course of study. It seems like a good way to teach theology elsewhere too, and maybe a good way to teach many other disciplines. That’s a fascinating course of study. It seems like a good way to teach theology elsewhere too, and maybe a good way to teach many other disciplines.

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