The late John Lewis, congressman and non-violent civil rights activist made the striking comment during an interview; “In the end, we all have to be willing to place our bodies in the way of injustice and hate”.
If our commitment to justice lives only in our minds and the sentiment of the heart then it is not the radical love that Jesus invites us into. Love involves the full body, because it is the concretizing of God’s spirit active in our world. True freedom involves a willingness to put our very bodies at risk.