Volunteers praised, warned against "activism"
I'm not sure how one refers to 'mere activism' when discussing volunteer work. The article must be missing something from the talk (I hope). While one must guard themselves against losing sight of the need to focus on God, without volunteers who were activists against injustice we wouldn't have, here and in general, a 40-hour work week, weekends, health and safety regulations or reasonable hospital care for that matter. Is this some subtle slap at activists in the third world perhaps? Sometimes more than "the gaze of love" is necessary when people are living in inhuman conditions and starving to death. But that's just my opinion.
Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
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I really fail to see why "activism" seems to be such a dirty word. In many situations the act of volunteering alone is an act of activism. One can send all the bags of grain to feed the hungry one can, and that is a good thing. However, without working to change (activism) the conditions that causes this in the first place is like bailing out a rowboat with a teaspoon. Turning the other cheek is all well and good, but eventually one runs out of cheeks
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