by Marcia Mount Shoop
1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11
“Christian suffering is redemptive when it serves Christ’s liberating purpose—to alleviate the suffering of the world—and who is suffering these days? And who has been suffering at the hands of empire the most in the history of the United States? It is not white people who want to get back to their church buildings. That is not the suffering Peter had in mind.”