{"id":378,"date":"2017-04-30T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T00:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/?page_id=378"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:04:38","slug":"salt-is-an-acrostic-rather-than-an-acronym","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/index.php\/salt-is-an-acrostic-rather-than-an-acronym\/","title":{"rendered":"S A L T"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Logo_Salt.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-488\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Logo_Salt.png\" alt=\"SALT logo\" width=\"394\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Logo_Salt.png 394w, https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Logo_Salt-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">S A L T\u00a0 was a very loose fellowship of Christians, who were for the most part members of Saint Augustine&#8217;s\u2013\u2013men and women of faith who took seriously issues of war and peace, social and economic justices, violence in all its forms, human rights, poverty, environmental sustainability, and racism as moral questions related to Christian spiritual practice. With the closing of Saint Augustine&#8217;s came the end of Salt as a group. I have thought a number of times of deleting this page, but have been encouraged to keep it as an encouragement to peace and justice\u2013\u2013a plea, not to be part of a particular group of peace and justice advocates, but for each person who reads this page to be encouraged, in the words of Jesus, to be &#8220;the salt of the earth&#8221; (Matthew 5:13).<\/h3>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Larry_Hart_2017-e1500927536712.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-438 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Larry_Hart_2017-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Hart\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reference<a href=\"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dove-e1575518718808.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-533\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritual-christian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dove-300x253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">Campaign for Nonviolence<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A project of Pace e Bene\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/paceebene.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paceebene.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">Poor People&#8217;s Campaign<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A national call for moral revival<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/poorpeoplescampaign.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poorpeoplescampaig<wbr \/>n.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\"><strong>\u201cS A L T\u201d is an acrostic rather than an acronym:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">S<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #8f7a60;\">Soul-force is that active power and energy for peace and justice that comes from having consecrated one\u2019s heart and mind to the Jesus Way.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">A<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #8f7a60;\">Ahimsa is an attitude of universal good will, compassion, and kindness.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">L<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #8f7a60;\"> Love is nurturing the life of others in all of its forms &#8212; physical, intellectual,<br \/>emotional, and spiritual; it is meeting the legitimate needs of others where we<br \/>are able to do so without seeking to fulfill our own personal desires or agenda. <\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">T<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #8f7a60;\"> Truth is that which accords with reality as found in the person of Christ who<br \/>\u201cis the light of the world.\u201d<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>[one_half_first]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">SALT<\/span><\/strong> seeks peace, within and without, in every situation, in every circumstance, and in every relation. <strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">SALT<\/span><\/strong> therefore supports an end to the insanity of the nuclear arms race, and unrestrained military expansion in the face of national and global hunger, homelessness, and disease. <strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">SALT<\/span><\/strong> believes that all prisoners should be treated humanely and that torture is never justified. Recognizing that unfairness and injustice, in addition to inequities in the economic and legal system can become a kind of violence themselves. <strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">SALT<\/span><\/strong> advocates for economic justice for the poor. To that end, <strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">SALT<\/span><\/strong> advocates for the justice of a sustainable minimum wage for all workers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/one_half_first][one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>We must have a minimum wage that assures the basic necessities of life including equal pay for women for equal work.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">SALT <\/span><\/strong>believes that Christians should be involved in the battle to end human trafficking and that a reform of the criminal code that is not based on race or income. <strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">SALT<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0advocates for the strict regulation of \u201cWall Street\u201d and an end to the unlimited funds corporations provide candidates who favor the wealthy at the expense of the rest of society. <span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\"><b>SALT <\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: open sans;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">supports fair and humane immigration reform, National Voter Rights legislation, universal health care, and sees sustaining the environmental integrity of the planet as a moral issue.<\/span>[\/one_half_last]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<h3>The Staurogram or\u00a0Tau-Rho<\/h3>\n<p>[one_half_first]<\/p>\n<p>In the SALT logo the Greek tau (T) is combined with the Greek rho (P), and was used in the early church as an abbreviation for \u201cthe cross.\u201d So for Christians has a deep meaning. The tau symbolizes the cross itself, and rho could function as a symbol, meaning \u201chelp.\u201d The tau, or tav, is the end of the Hebrew alphabet and represents, completion, fulfillment, and infinity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[\/one_half_first]<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>In the visions of Ezekiel, the Tau is the sign placed upon the foreheads of the poor of Israel, it saves them from extermination. The Staurogram, has many meanings, which include: a reminder of the Cross of Christ; our help is in the cross; Christians are concerned with being instruments of Christ\u2019s love, peace, and help; and that ultimate fulfillment is in the Cross.<\/p>\n<p>[\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Short Catechism of Liberation<\/h2>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #8f7a60;\">Larry Hart<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_first]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Who are the oppressed?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Those identifiable social groups who are used or manipulated by others for the sake of greed, self-gratification, power, or the need to control are the oppressed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Who are the oppressors?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Those leaders, groups, governments, or established authorities of any institution who use, manipulate, or control the well being of others, especially through the use of power or wealth, are the oppressors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> What is the oppressed consciousness?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> The oppressed often adopt the consciousness of the oppressor and even admire and envy their oppressor. The self-justifying point of view of the oppressor is thus internalized by the oppressed contributing to their own difficulty and suffering. It is true: \u201cPower corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\u201d But, the opposite is equally true: \u201cPowerlessness corrupts, and absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> What happens when oppression becomes unbearable?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> When their suffering becomes unbearable the oppressed may, as happens at times, rise up and overthrow the oppressor, but this is nearly always done in order that they might themselves become the oppressor. As Reinhold Niebuhr once observed, \u201cThe problem with revolutions is that they change who holds the power but not how power is held.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> What, then, is the goal?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> The goal is not to overthrow the oppressors, but to liberate the whole world so that no one oppresses another.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> How is the world to be liberated?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> The problem is essentially spiritual and, therefore, intractable to all efforts other than those which are essentially spiritual. Love and ahimsa are the gifts of the spiritual life which make possible the creation of a new and liberated humanity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Does this mean that only Christians can bring about liberation?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> No, of course not. Christians must, therefore, be willing to join with and work with men and women of wisdom and purity of heart whatever their distinctive spiritual practices, as long as those spiritual practices are bent toward compassion, nonviolence, and the good of all. The ordinary saints and <em>satyagrahas<\/em> of every faith, as well as humanists committed to the principle of <em>gemeinschaftsgefuhl<\/em> (community feeling) will have a natural affinity and appreciation for one another in this work.\u00a0[\/one_half_first]<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> What are the liberating practices of the Christian community?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Those practices of prayer, meditation, contemplation, devotion and \u201ccharity,\u201d which lead to an awareness of communion, of at-one-ment, with the Mystery we call God, and in which Christians experience Christ as our peace, are, for the Christian, the means by which human consciousness may be transformed and the despair of oppression rendered null.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Are these individual or communal practices?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Spiritual reality, mystical reality, is inherently paradoxical. We are both many and one. Christians see themselves as individual members of one body; therefore, while spirituality is intensely personal it is never purely individualistic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> How far does this unity extend?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Since \u201cGod is above all, through all, and in all\u201d (Ephesians 4:6), Christians will seek the flowering of that unity in peace. Which itself has to do with what is complete and harmonious and results in respect for the dignity of every human being, reverence for all life, and a physically, economically, politically, culturally, emotionally, intellectually, environmentally, and \u201cecologically sustainable global civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> How are Christians and other spiritual persons to go about such work?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Love and non-violence must be a passion. Non-violence also calls for courage, for each votary \u201cmust be a messenger, a prophet, speaking truth and exposing lies.\u201d But it is love that makes courage possible for one cannot be loving and afraid at the same time, and passion saves ahimsa from becoming a mere policy. \u201cOne with passion expresses it in every act\u201d (Gandhi). The non-violence of the votary arises from having experienced the transcendent which brings peace and wisdom within. Violence is needed to protect what is external, love and non-violence protect one\u2019s spirit, and make service to the <em>anawim<\/em> possible.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #347791;\">Q:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Isn\u2019t all this utopian?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8f7a60;\">A:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Such a perspective assumes a disconnected duality of the \u201cnatural\u201d and \u201cspiritual\u201d that is more illusory than real. It can only be good to do good everywhere and always \u2014 in life or death, on earth or in heaven. The worldly criteria of success measures nothing. However, even if we were to use the world\u2019s criteria of success and failure, those of the Way, believe it better to fail at love, and compassion, and liberation than to succeed in unkindness, malice, or oppression. There is only one possible way out of violence and oppression, and that is love and non-violence. Should we not pursue that possibility even if at times it sounds utopian or impossible? If the peace makers come to be known as the children of God, and the pure of heart come to see God, then ultimately love cannot be defeated.\u00a0[\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">S A L T refers to a spiritual path<\/h2>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<p>SALT is based on the spiritual precepts of Christ. To be salt is to be committed to the principles of nonviolence, love, compassion, and justice as universal spiritual maxims rather than as mere pragmatic techniques that may be disregarded if they become inconvenient or to demanding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayers<\/h2>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_first] <span style=\"color: #8f7a60; font-size: 16pt;\">Prayer of Saint Francis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is hatred, let me bring love. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is offense, let me bring pardon. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is discord, let me bring union. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is error, let me bring truth. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is doubt, let me bring faith. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is despair, let me bring hope. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is darkness, let me bring your light. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Where there is sadness, let me bring joy. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">O Master, let me not seek as much to be consoled <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">as to console, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">to be understood as to understand, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that one receives, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">it is in self-forgetting that one finds, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">it is in pardoning that one is pardoned, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.<\/span> [\/one_half_first]<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_last] <span style=\"color: #8f7a60; font-size: 16pt;\">Thomas Merton Peace Prayer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Almighty and merciful God, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Father of all, Creator and ruler of the universe, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Lord of all history, whose designs are without blemish, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">whose compassion for the errors of humanity is inexhaustible, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">in your will is our peace. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Mercifully hear this prayer which rises to you from the tumult <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">and desperation of a world in which you are forgotten, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">in which your name is not invoked, your laws are derided <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">and your presence is ignored. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Because we do not know you, we have no peace. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">From the heart of an eternal silence, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">you have watched the rise of empires and <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">have seen the smoke of their downfall. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">You have witnessed the impious fury of ten thousand fratricidal wars, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">in which great powers have torn whole continents to shreds<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">in the name of peace and justice. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">A day of ominous decision has now dawned on this free nation. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Save us then from our obsessions! <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Open our eyes, dissipate our confusions, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">teach us to understand ourselves and our adversary. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Let us never forget that sins against the law of love <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">are punishable by loss of faith, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">and those without faith stop at no crime to achieve their ends! <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Help us to be masters of the weapons that threaten to master us. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Help us to use our science for peace and plenty, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">not for war and destruction. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Save us from the compulsion to follow our adversaries <br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">in all that we most hate, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">confirming them in their hatred and suspicion of us. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Resolve our inner contradictions, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">which now grow beyond belief and beyond bearing. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">They are at once a torment and a blessing: <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">for if you had not left us the light of conscience, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">we would not have to endure them. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Teach us to wait and trust. Grant light, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">grant strength and patience to all who work for peace. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">But grant us above all to see that our ways <br \/>are not necessarily your ways, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">that we cannot fully penetrate the mystery of your designs <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">and that the very storm of power now raging on this earth <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">reveals your hidden will and your inscrutable decision. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Grant us to see your face in the lightning of this cosmic storm, <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">O God of holiness, merciful to men. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Grant us to seek peace where it is truly found. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In your will, O God, is our peace.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #8f7a60; font-size: 14pt;\">Amen.<\/span> [\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n<h3>Suggested Books to Read<\/h3>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">John Howard Yoder, <em>The Politics of Jesus<\/em> Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. <em>The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus\u2019 Teaching and How They Have Been Corrupted<\/em> (New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Doubleday Publishing, 2006). Pope Francis, <em>Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home<\/em> (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 2015 Lawrence D. Hart <em>Hell\u2019s Abyss, Heaven\u2019s Grace: War and Christian Spirituality<\/em> (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cowley Publications, 2006).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<p>Sojourners Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sojo.net<\/a> Repairers of the Breach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breachrepairers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breachrepairers.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S A L T\u00a0 was a very loose fellowship of Christians, who were for the most part members of Saint Augustine&#8217;s\u2013\u2013men and women of faith who took seriously issues of war and peace, social and economic justices, violence in all its forms, human rights, poverty, environmental sustainability, and racism as moral questions related to Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<title>SALT is an acrostic rather than an acronym. 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