Ken Wilson
1 min readSep 1, 2020

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I understand the impulse. But we do celebrate Dietrich Bonhoeffer (conservatives as much as progressive Christians.) And we feel shame that the vast majority of Christians in Germany were silent in Hitler’s rise to power — silent long before his worst was known openly. Many in fact were on the bandwagon. I think that when a leader is as brazenly white supremacist (for example) as Trump is, it’s time to speak up, knowing it will rock the boat. Unless the goal is: don’t EVER rock the boat. In which case, we have to wonder: what would Jesus do? And does our silence have anything to do with him at all? And, btw, I’ve had plenty of experience speaking up in a congregation that wasn’t pleased to hear what I had to say. And I don’t regret it for a moment.

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Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson

Written by Ken Wilson

Co-Author with Emily Swan of Solus Jesus: A Theology of Resistance, and co-pastor of Blue Ocean Faith, Ann Arbor, a progressive, inclusive church (a2blue.org).

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