A passive resistance.

What does that mean?

I remember back in my 20’s saying to a friend, “What if the most powerful thing you can do is be quiet?” Not silent to injustice, rather quietness in the face of certainty.

The people and institutions that don’t take the time to contemplate different views. Who don’t want to do the work of critical thinking. Sometimes it’s not even the work – it can be the culture in which they are raised which can assure them that their way is right – because, hasn’t it always been right?

Maybe it’s not our place to speak out the inconsistencies.

I see this a lot in evangelicalism – a theology of simplicity that doesn’t want to unwrap the multiple layers of meaning. Confirmation bias taking over the reading of scriptures because looking at things another way might create questions and conflict. The comfort with the way things have always been done.

Maybe the power is in silence.

It’s not up to me to convince people there is more than “this” – I feel the Holy Spirit is doing the work. He seems to be consistently revealing the rotten. Unveiling the untruths or false teachers. He has appointed truth-tellers and wisdom revealers. The truth will “out” – that seems certain.

But for most of us, our place is in prayer. In contemplation. In rest. And in availability. Because the questions will come and we will deliver, but softly and without judgement.