Harvard Crimson writer Kenny Gu covers Religion and Public Life's Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative (RCPI) Fellow Noura Erakat's event, “Decolonize Now: A Conversation about Radical Imagination and Justice in Israel/Palestine."
Ganz kicked off the discussion by questioning how people mobilize around their struggles. He responded to his own question by referring to the teachings of the Protestant theologian Walter Brueggemann, who wrote about the relationship between criticality and hope.
'One, [Brueggemann] calls criticality, which is a clear view of the world’s need, of its pain, of its hurt, coupled with hope — that sense of its promises, possibilities — and that one without the other goes to despair or irrelevance,” Ganz said. “The tension, together, can inspire transformational change.'
Erakat drew on her background in activism to answer the question.
'My greatest education — like you, Marshall — was not from my institutions of academic excellence, so to speak, but have actually come from the ground, have come from community, have come from struggle,' Erakat said."
Read the full article on the Harvard Crimson.
Read more about the RCPI Spring Speaker Series and the three remaining talks this April in Disrupting Injustice and Promoting Moral Imagination in Israel/Palestine | Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School.