Thanks for this important article. You outline key obstacles and challenges for Christians trying to follow Jesus’ radical path of solidarity and justice. An analysis along these lines is what has led me to put a significant amount of my time and energy into organizing _inside_ the church.

You might be interested in an organization that I’ve been involved with for about 20 years. It’s called Christian Peacemaker Teams. A sermon often cited as the founding vision for the organization (http://www.cpt.org/resources/writings/sider) had some pretty strong fingerprints of what you describe as “the need to step up and teach people their own methods of how to lead resistance movements.” Over the last 12 years, our community has focused heavily on looking at how our methods themselves are complicit in white supremacy. You can read some of the analysis we use in our trainings here: http://www.cpt.org/resources/training/undoing_oppression

Our work around undoing oppressions has been challenging in many ways, but it has led us to invest more deeply in the four areas where we have teams rather than moving from place to place as the international spotlight moves. For example, while we had a month and a half presence at Standing Rock (which I was part of) our Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Team (http://www.cpt.org/work/aboriginal_justice) has continued to focus on the Grass Narrows First Nation where we have had a presence since 2002.

If you’re interested in some of our history, here’s one part of the internal work that we did in 2009 to try to deconstruct some of the way whiteness permeated our organization: http://www.cpt.org/content/undoing-racism