Kayla Bridges’s Reviews > Liturgies for Resisting Empire: Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World > Status Update

"Build houses, plant gardens, seek peace and well-being, pray (Jeremiah 29:5-7). There's a kind of holy defiance in pressing seeds into soil, watering them with a gentle, patient hand. Caring for a thing with tenderness in a world that seeks to crush, to suppress, to exploit is resistance - a quiet, rooted kind that refuses to be dislodged by the violence of empire.