Notes

Introduction

1. Luke 4:18 NRSV.

2. David Karsner, Debs: His Authorized Life and Letters (United States: Boni & Liveright, 1919), 48.

3. Matthew 25:40.

Chapter 1

1. Philippians 2:12 NRSV.

2. Acts 2:40 NRSV.

3. Acts 2:44–47 NRSV.

Chapter 2

1. Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1955), 10–11.

2. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1951), 13.

3. Luke 1:28 NRSV.

4. Origen, “Against Celsus,” in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. IV: Fathers of the Third Century, ed. Rev. Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson, and Arthur Cleveland Coxe (New York: Cosimo, 1885), 408.

5. Luke 6:20–21 NRSV.

6. Passion City Church, “The Beloved Community – Dan Cathy, Lecrae, Louie Giglio,” YouTube video, 1:10:37, June 15, 2020, accessed August 30, 2021, https://youtu.be/xEuI-03Jcc4/.

7. 1 Corinthians 15:22.

8. Luke 3:6.

9. Ephesians 1:23.

10. Luke 6:24–25 NRSV.

11. Michael K. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 211.

12. Honey, Jericho Road, 298.

13. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum Publishing, 1970; London: Penguin Books, 2017), 38.

Chapter 3

1. Jennifer Harvey, Whiteness and Morality (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 75.

2. Indigenous Values, Dum Diversas, Doctrine of Discovery, July 23, 2018, accessed August 30, 2021, https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/dum-diversas/.

3. Christopher Columbus, The Journal of Christopher Columbus, trans. Clement R. Markham (London: Hakluyt Society, 1893), 38.

4. Indigenous Values, Inter Caetera, Doctrine of Discovery, July 23, 2018, accessed August 30, 2021, https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/inter-caetera/.

5. Indigenous Values, Inter Caetera.

6. 1 Chronicle 20:6 NRSV.

7. Robert A. Williams Jr., Savage Anxieties (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Chapter 1.

8. Williams Jr., Savage Anxieties, 102.

9. Hal Foster, “The Art of Fetishism,” Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, ed. Emily Apter and William Pietz (New York: Cornell University Press, 1993), 254.

10. Javier Villa-Flores, “Voices from a Living Hell,” in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, ed. Martin Austin Nesvig (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), 236–37.

Chapter 4

1. Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies (New York: Library of America, 1994), 97.

2. Frederick Douglass, Selected Speeches and Writings (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999), 199.

3. Douglass, Autobiographies, 97.

4. Luke 1:52–53.

5. Matthew 15:22–28 NRSV.

6. Collectif James Baldwin, “James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni - A Conversation (1971) Complete,” YouTube video, 1:56:38, February 28, 2019, accessed August 30, 2021, https://youtu.be/4Jc54RvDUZU/.

7. Karl W. Lampley, A Theological Account of Nat Turner (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 3–4.

8. Lampley, Nat Turner, 123.

Chapter 5

1. Romans 5:20.

2. Bruce Chilton, Rabbi Jesus (New York: Doubleday, 2000), 110.

3. John D. Caputo, The Weakness of God (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 146.

4. Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 184.

5. Peter Damian, “Selections from his Letter on Divine Omnipotence,” trans. Paul Vincent Spade, 1995, accessed August 30, 2021, https://pvspade.com/Logic/docs/damian.pdf.

6. Damian, Selections.

7. Damian, Selections.

8. Matthew 19:26 NRSV.

9. Caputo, Weakness, 224.

10. Acts 3:21.

11. Colossians 1:20.

12. Revelation 21:5.

13. Luke 15:17–19 NRSV.

14. Luke 15:20–24 NRSV.

15. Luke 15:25–32 NRSV.

16. Amos 5:23–24 NRSV.

17. Matthew 18:21–22 NRSV.

18. Luke 17:4 NRSV.

Chapter 6

1. Matthew 5:3, 10.

2. Matthew 8:11.

3. Mark 1:15.

4. Luke 17:21.

5. Matthew 13:31–32.

6. Matthew 13:33.

7. Matthew 6:10 NRSV.

8. Luke 4:18 NRSV.

9. Matthew 11:4–5 NRSV.

10. Matthew 20:16.

11. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2004), 2.

12. Critical Resistance, “What Is the Pic? What Is Abolition?” accessed August 30, 2021, http://criticalresistance.org/about/not-so-common-language/.

13. Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016), 77.

14. Angela Y. Davis, Abolition Democracy (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005), 92–93.

15. Davis, Abolition Democracy, 92.

16. Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Alicia Garza,” The Feminist Wire, accessed August 30, 2021, https://thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/.

17. Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing (Brooklyn: Verso, 2018), 2.

18. Mariame Kaba, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021), 2–3.

19. Miguel A. De La Torre, Embracing Hopelessness (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017), 5.

20. Luke 1:52–53 NRSV.

21. The CR10 Publications Collective, Abolition Now! (Oakland: AK Press, 2008), 4.

22. Avery F. Gordon, “Some Thoughts on Haunting and Futurity,” Borderlands 10, no. 2 (2011), Gale Academic OneFile, accessed August 30, 2021, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A276187005/AONE?u=anon~995ed35d&sid=googleScholar&xid=da3de1ba/.

23. Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein, “What Abolitionists Do,” Jacobin, accessed August 30, 2021, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/prison-abolition-reform-mass-incarceration.

Chapter 7

1. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam,” The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, accessed March 13, 2021, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/beyond-vietnam/.

2. Luke 10:30–37.

3. Hugh McDonnell, “The Left Side of the Church,” Jacobin, accessed August 30, 2021, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/church-liberation-theology-latin-america-left/.

4. Matthew 21:28–31 NRSV.

5. Darrel Enck-Wanzer, ed., Young Lords: A Reader (New York: New York University Press), 32.

6. Enck-Wanzer, Young Lords, 206.

7. Peter Rollins, “John Caputo on the Event in Christianity,” YouTube video, 21:49, July 12, 2015, accessed November 22, 2021, https://youtu.be/R2nq8baHDFY.

8. 1 John 4:7–12 NRSV.

9. Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls, trans. Ellen L. Babinksy (New York: Paulist Press), 104.

Chapter 8

1. Acts 17:24.

2. Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Specters of Revolt (London: Repeater Books, 2016), 245–247.

3. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, accessed March 13, 2021, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/letter-birmingham-jail/.

4. Raya Dunayevskaya, Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991), xxvii.

5. Mark 11:2–3 NRSV.

6. Mark 11:9–10 NRSV.

7. Horsley, Spiral, 34.

8. Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week (New York: Harper One, 2006), 32.

9. Mark 11:15–16 NRSV.

10. Jennifer Bjorhus, “How the Fall of the Third Precinct Station Resounded in the Twin Cities,” Star Tribune, July 28, 2020, https://www.startribune.com/how-the-fall-of-the-third-precinct-station-resounded-in-the-twin-cities/570671281/.

11. Star Tribune, “E-Mails, Public Records Reveal What Happened before Minneapolis’ Third Precinct Was Abandoned.” August 12, 2020, https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-third-precinct-george-floyd-emails-public-records-reveal-what-happened-before-abandoned-mayor-frey/566290701/.

12. Bjorhus, “Third Precinct Station.”

13. Bjorhus, “Third Precinct Station.”

14. Mark 11:13–14 NRSV.

15. Borg and Crossan, The Last Week, 35.

16. Mark 11:17 NRSV.

17. Jeremiah 7:3–4 NRSV.

18. Jeremiah 7:5–11 NRSV.

19. CNN, “One Million Refugees and Migrants Entered Europe in 2015; Black Lives Matter Protest Scheduled at Mall of America; No White Christmas This Year; Top Ten Trending Stories of 2015,” aired December 15, 2015, CNN, accessed August 30, 2021, http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/22/cnr.02.html/..

20. CNN.

21. CNN.

22. Matthew 21:14–16 NRSV.

23. Horsley, Spiral, 9–10.

24. Horsley, Spiral, 30.

25. Horsley, Spiral, 287.

26. Horsley, Spiral, 300.

27. Luke 19:41–44

28. Vicky Osterweil, In Defense of Looting (New York: Bold Type Books, 2020), 13.

29. Osterweil, In Defense, 13.

30. Kaba, We Do This, 2.

31. Mark 11:20–24 NRSV.

32. David M. Jacobson, “The Design of the Fortress of Herodium,” Zeitschrift Des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (1953-), vol. 100 (1984), 127, accessed August 30, 2021, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27931224/.

Chapter 9

1. Ill Will, “The Eternal Return of Revolt,” July 8, 2020, accessed August 30, 2021, https://illwill.com/the-eternal-return-of-revolt/.

2. Osterweil, In Defense, 4.

3. Osterweil, In Defense, 4–5.

4. John 2:14–16 NRSV.

5. Osterweil, In Defense, 6.

6. Luke 23:34 NRSV.

7. Freire, Pedagogy, 30.

Conclusion

1. Annabel Daou, “Which Side Are You On?” accessed September 1, 2021, https://annabeldaou.com/Which-side-are-you-on/.

2. Matthew 25:34–40 NRSV.

3. 1 Corinthians 1:26–29 NRSV.