Across the country, organizers are carrying something heavier, clearer and more spiritually charged than anything I have seen in over 30 years of this work. From veteran freedom fighters to young activists, there is a growing alignment around the unmistakable presence of evil in our public life. The horrors unfolding before us have sharpened our collective sight and deepened the understanding that our resistance must be morally unwavering and spiritually grounded.

The spiritual framework for this argument begins with a simple conviction. Our movements need to reclaim a moral vocabulary that names evil plainly. Dr King understood this. When he named the pain of poverty, the sickness of racism and the excess of materialism, he called them the “triple evils”, speaking with unflinching clarity about the devastation that this collective evil was inflicting on the country, on our conscience and on our very souls. We are living in such a moment again. The evil is fully out, and anyone with spiritual integrity can see it. Among the forces driving that clarity are Gaza, empire and ICE.

For two years, the world has watched the systematic slaughter of civilians in Gaza, an industrial scale cruelty carried out by one of the most powerful militaries on Earth. The devastation was not only permitted by the United States; it was carried out with our weapons, our cover and our political immunity. Not long ago, people still debated the nuances of settler colonial frameworks regarding Israel and its violence against Palestinians. Today, those debates feel like artifacts. Israel’s leaders stripped away any pretense about the humanity of people in Gaza. For those of us who pleaded for restraint or simply tried to name the horror for what it was, the clarity now burns. This was evil, unvarnished and unapologetic. And it has permanently shaped a rising generation and spiritually anchored communities across the globe.

Meanwhile, our social media feeds are filled with the spectacle of an unmasked empire. We see a president boasting about overriding the sovereignty of other nations and pushing policies that echo the darkest chapters of western........

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