{"id":963,"date":"2014-11-26T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=963"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:01","slug":"nov-26-thanksgiving-and-the-ferguson-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/11\/26\/nov-26-thanksgiving-and-the-ferguson-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 26  &#8212;  Thanksgiving and the Ferguson verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday November 26 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201c. . . transform opposers into friends . . . \u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No classes today so campus gets to decompress and let the buildings and infrastructure rest a bit. \u00a0Same with UDM employees. \u00a0I\u2019m slipping in this off-regular cycle post to remind myself, and the 1655 readers enrolled on the \u201cWork Day in Hard Times\u201d list, that the gratitude we celebrate this week does not mean that we go temporarily blind and deaf to the wounds of our world.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s invocation of \u201cthe beloved community\u201d &#8212; \u00a0taken I believe from the American Pragmatist philosopher Josiah Royce \u2014 makes good Thanksgiving Day reading. \u00a0It invites us to invite to our family tables\u00a0those enraged by and those who defend the Ferguson Grand Jury. \u00a0 Dr. King was right when he implied that as a nation we are nowhere near finished with violence.<\/p>\n<p>He was right too, to stake his hope in \u201cthe beloved community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving; \u00a0I hope you get to put your feet up and breathe a little.<\/p>\n<p>See you next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beloved Community<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the end is reconciliation;<\/p>\n<p>the end is redemption;<\/p>\n<p>the end is the creation of the beloved community.<\/p>\n<p>It is this type of spirit and this type of love<\/p>\n<p>that can transform opposers into friends . . .<\/p>\n<p>It is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MLK 1957<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/01\/MartinLutherKingJr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-295\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/01\/MartinLutherKingJr.jpg\" alt=\"MartinLutherKingJr\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/01\/MartinLutherKingJr.jpg 220w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/01\/MartinLutherKingJr-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday November 26 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201c. . . transform opposers into friends . . . \u201c No classes today so campus gets to decompress and let the buildings and infrastructure rest a bit. \u00a0Same with UDM employees. \u00a0I\u2019m slipping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/11\/26\/nov-26-thanksgiving-and-the-ferguson-verdict\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}