“Martyrdom, Genocide, and Jesus”
With Bert Newton, Rev. Susan Panttaja, Vicki Wolf, and Brian Shaw
History is full of tragedy, injustice, and even genocide, but it is also full of love, resilience and redemption. One way that people have overcome injustice and genocide is through claiming and lifting up the martyrs and telling their stories.
Bert Newton is the author of Subversive Wisdom; Sociopolitical Dimensions of John’s Gospel. Bert also has a podcast on the Gospel of Matthew entitled, “Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew’s Gospel,” which unpacks the story in Matthew through a socio-literary lens, understanding Jesus as a peasant leader of a nonviolent movement for a new society. Bert works as an organizer for housing justice in Pasadena, CA and as well as in Pasadena for Palestine’s Divestment Campaign which is calling for the City of Pasadena to divest from companies involved in the genocide in Gaza.
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