This Saturday, March 30, 2024, at 1:00PM Pacific Time, at the Tacoma Detention Center. (map below). The Table Turning website says:
Table Turning is a rarely discussed part of the Jesus story. Just a few days before Jesus was executed as an enemy of the Roman Empire, Jesus turned over the tables used by businessmen and bankers in the Temple, the epicenter of the Jerusalem’s economy, and invited in children and the “blind and the lame” who had been historically barred from entry. The voices of marginalized people ring out in the center of the city’s social, economic, and religious hub while commerce is disrupted. Just before turning the tables, Jesus and the occupied people of the land had staged a performance (commemorated on Palm Sunday) that mocked the Emperor and offered an alternative vision of what peace and power could look like.
As a holiday, Table Turning exists as a constellation of local actions occurring between Palm Sunday and Good Friday of each year. It is not meant to be the only time each year when churches participate in direct action. Rather it is meant to build a counter-narrative about religion and politics, and Christianity in particular. It’s a challenge to a faith tradition that has been seduced by incarnate capitalist brutality, to redefine itself based on incarnate liberating love.
Note from the organizers: We celebrate the immense contributions of Jewish communities to the work of justice. We acknowledge and repent that this is one of many stories about Jesus that has been used to justify anti-semitism. We believe that Jesus acted from within the Jewish tradition to emphasize it’s emphatic commitment to liberation, not to reject or denigrate it.
https://tableturning.org/
Peace, dwight
