The 700 Club

Oct 15

The 700 Club made a lot of shit clear, y’all — for realz!

If you still think this election is about a few stupid people versus the rest, you better frigging think again. I got my car serviced in a Michigan suburb yesterday. Nice folks for sure. Everybody treated me with kindness and respect. Nothing to hate on. That was until I sat in the waiting room for two hours watching the news on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

There wasn’t anyone mentioning any candidates by name. There wasn’t even a question of partisanship. It was just very clear that the election was about a lot more than who was gonna be in the White House. They reinforced the idea that this was about the soul of the nation, and when you put the election in religious terms, liberals will always lose.

Think about the issues on the table—the right to choose, response to a pandemic, racism and the environment. When you look at those in biblical terms they look like the wrath of God at play. There’s a majority of people in the country who believe that the fate of the world is in the hands of the God of Abraham and that the only necessity is a firm belief in Jesus Christ.

A few years ago, when Islamophobia was the hot topic, I wondered that Christians could lack so much self awareness as not to see all of the violence that has been done in their name. Having studied the Bible and seen for myself how much blood is evoked in those pages, I can say for sure, it’s a dangerous book in the wrong hands.

Trumps supporters aren’t fools. They are people of faith. They are people who know God is on their side and the more people rail against them, the firmer they will hold. The Bible has an answer for everything, including the persecution believers may have to endure from liberal minded folks.

Pink Flowers

Pink Flowers is a Black trans artist, peacemaker, educator, and pleasure activist whose work lives at the intersection of embodiment, governance, and cultural transformation. Trained in Theater of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting, and Navajo-informed Peacemaking practices, Pink designs spaces where conflict can be addressed, power can be examined, and joy can be reclaimed.

Her artistic and pedagogical practice draws from African trickster cosmology, Brazilian Joker traditions, shamanic ritual, and cooperative economics. She is the founder of the award-winning Falconworks Theater Company (2005–2021), which used popular theater to build civic capacity and participatory leadership in historically marginalized communities.

Pink served for over five years as a trained Peacemaker in the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, facilitating restorative processes within the New York City court system. From 2015–2018, she worked in cooperative business development with the Center for Family Life, supporting worker-owned enterprises in immigrant communities.

She currently serves as Director of Education and Training for the Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann Arbor, where she leads leadership development and conflict engagement initiatives. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the Stretch Festival in Berlin and the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference.

Across ritual, performance, mediation, and institutional design, Pink’s work asks a central question:

What becomes possible when we refuse shame and choose conscious power instead?

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