I'm a genocide scholar, and I spend my days studying massacres - Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Myanmar. The casual way humans slaughter each other. The way the world watches and does nothing.
John's vision of martyrs crying out 'How long until you judge?' - that's not a spiritual abstraction. That's the cry of the Tutsi in the churches. That's the cry of the Uyghur in the camps. That's the cry of the Haitian children in the sweatshops.
I used to think apocalyptic theology was escapist. But it's not. It's the insistence that God sees. That crying out matters. That justice delayed is injustice, but it's not forever.
I'm writing a book about how the cry for justice in apocalyptic literature connects to justice work in our own time. Advocating for the oppressed isn't unspiritual. It's cosmic work.
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