Complicit

As we struggle to find community in an individual-driven world, we spend a lot of time trying to figure out what it looks like to hold things in common. What if we held responsibility in common? Those who oppose the war: every time a bomb falls or a soldier dies…complicit. Those who are vegetarian: as long as there is a bloody and corrupt pork industry…complicit. Those who are pro-choice: when a child is born into a world with no arms awaiting it…complicit. Those who embrace diverse sexual orientations: while placards and signs still hurl insults…complicit. Those who ride their bikes and veggie-oil cars to work: for each hillside ravished and lake spoiled…complicit. Those who wear scarlet “I’s” and actively protest: whether a child is killed on the streets or a man is quietly injected with death…complicit. Those who call the name Jesus while the masses shout louder “Barabbas!”…complicit. Let us not wash our hands like Pilate and be done with it. We are, after all, family.

-Matt