Editorial: Occupying Everything  What I love about having
conversations with vibrant, intelligent, people is that you
often find yourself verbalizing your beliefs in a distilled
and succinct manner that may never have occurred in solitude. In
this case, I was having lunch with a retired Lutheran minister,
a member of my wife’s family, and our conversation turned to
social justice and the Occupy movement. Specifically, we were
talking about “Occupy faith” initiatives that have been
springing up to support the movement, and  what the role of
faith communities should be regarding outcry over economic
injustice. I posited that this moment in history provided a rare
opportunity for the dwindling mainline Protestant congregations,
and for progressive Catholics, to provide the infrastructure,
support, and moral guidance they did during the height of the
civil rights era, before a confluence of political and social
shifts resulted in a profound shift in our collective priorities
and goals. After all, Martin Luther Ki