Episode 22: Revolutionary Love Conversation Starter

Episode 22: Revolutionary Love

In this Growing Edge Podcast, Parker and Carrie talk with author, attorney, filmmaker, and activist Valarie Kaur. In her new book, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie invites us to a revised and renewed version of the historic nonviolent movement for social change. 

June Questions of the Month

How do you respond to the idea of Revolutionary Love? What would Revolutionary Love look like in your life? Is there any room for anger, even rage, in your understanding of love? When you reflect on the question, “Is this the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb,” what does it evoke in you? How might the three sections of the book (below) apply to your life or your community's life?

I. See No Strangers: Loving Others
II. Tend the Wound: Loving Opponents
III. Breathe and Push: Loving Ourselves