Spiritual Insight: Nonviolent Resistance

Dear God of Love and Justice, In Mark's Gospel, Jesus gathers His disciples close and overturns every assumption they hold about power. "Whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant," He tells them — and then He walks straight toward Jerusalem to prove it with His own body. The cross itself is the most radical act of nonviolent resistance the world has ever witnessed: the Son of God, absorbing the full violence of empire, and answering it not with legions of angels but with forgiveness.…