{"id":1097,"date":"2007-07-13T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/07\/eda-uca-testifying-of-the-nonv.html"},"modified":"2007-07-13T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T14:04:30","slug":"eda-uca-testifying-of-the-nonv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/07\/eda-uca-testifying-of-the-nonv.html","title":{"rendered":"Eda Uca: Testifying of the Nonviolent Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don\u2019t need another election. We need an exorcism. It is this that leads me from vigil to vigil and I burned with it on the evening of March 16, when I participated in nonviolent civil resistance and was arrested with more than 200 others as part of the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq<\/a>. I shook from it in court some three months later when I pleaded \u201cno contest\u201d to failing to obey a lawful order.
\nThere were 13 disciples in court that day, each with a unique mission. Many spoke beautifully to issues of amendments, traditions, permits, and codes. I ask you, sisters and brothers, what is our message? I wonder: Should we defend ourselves in finite opportunities to testify, or ought we defend the lowliest victims of war?
\nI stood at the podium that day, my throat dry and my hands cold, testifying to the message of the nonviolent Jesus<\/a>. I stood and prayed there\u2014as I had in front of the White House on that bitter cold night so many of us remember\u2014strictly to relieve the ringing in my ears: speak for the dead or join them. I could not discuss the First Amendment or the parameters of the permit. Rather, I felt commissioned by God to speak to one truth alone: The frontline in Iraq is everywhere and the children have no place to hide. When I sat down I felt, but for a moment, clean.
\nEda R. Uca<\/strong> is a member of Jonah House, an intentional faith-based resistance community in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of Ana’s Girls: The Essential Guide to the Underground Eating Disorder Community Online. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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