Getting Proximate to Pain, and Holding to the Power of Love — Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson

On Being : Getting Proximate to Pain, and Holding to the Power of Love — Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson Image
On Being : Getting Proximate to Pain, and Holding to the Power of Love — Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson Image

Getting Proximate to Pain, and Holding to the Power of Love — Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson

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We were introduced to Lucas Johnson by the great civil rights elder Vincent Harding. He said that this young man embodies the genius of nonviolence for our century — nonviolence not as a withholding of violence, but as a way of being present. And it was a great pleasure to bring him together with Rami Nashashibi, a rising visionary and kindred force in the Muslim world. Lucas is based in Amsterdam. Rami’s center of gravity is the South Side of Chicago. They have much to teach us all about the lived practicalities and tensions of the “strong, demanding love” to which Martin Luther King, Jr. called the world of his time — a call that is echoing again in ours. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.