I'll chime in here to say that I have been watching the Occupy movement with real interest. Social media is, indeed, revolutionizing global politics and the role of traditional media. At a time when political "super-committees" just grind to a halt, more and more people outside of system are mobilizing and taking action. It's just unclear at this point where a self-proclaimed "leaderless" (and arguably "message-less") movement like Occupy will end up. Nevertheless, the ground for traditional institutions such as government, media and churches is shifting in some pretty significant ways.

I must say that I was disappointed in Shawn Boonstra's answer to his own question, "Would Jesus Be in Zucotti Park?" http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=4903 First of all, any answer to that question could only be speculative (WWJD is always a poor starting point). To say that he's occupying the Heavenly Sanctuary and therefore not to be found among those occupying Wall Street seems both clever and dismissive. Would Jesus have been amidst those marching in Birmingham, Selma or Washington? What does the answer to that question look like now?

To say that Jesus was "decidedly apolitical" or that he was never a part of a "grassroots political organization" overlooks the fact that Christianity began as a grassroots effort. Although not allied with any political group or cause, the early Christian movement decidedly challenged the political, religious and social order of its day. While Jesus did not exercise politics on the world's terms, that is a long way from saying his message and mission did not have political implications. Unfortunately, much of what passes for "Christianity" today in America is nothing more than warmed over civil religion.

It may be, as Boonstra says, that the underlying motive for many in the OWS movement is nothing more than "covetousness" and "stuff." But is it possible the silence of those *not* Occupying Wall Street is also about the very same thing?

Rather than punting his question into the Holy of Holies, I wish Boonstra would have read Brueggemann who says "Justice is the earthly form of God's holiness." What does it mean to "come out" of Babylon and "not share in her sins?" Especially when the sins cataloged in Revelation 18 are expressed in commercial economic terms (with the chilling reference to the merchandising of "the bodies and souls" of humans)? While we may want to be "slow to sign Jesus up for our political causes," let's be certain we understand the causes for which Jesus stands in this "hour of judgment."

It seems to me that Jesus was very vocal & "political" when he chased the moneychangers from the temple..they seem to represent Wall Street to me!!