u/Bakkster

From one of this year's convention overtures:

>>WHEREAS, The Synod has condemned (2019 Res. 7-02) such harmful ideologies, which embrace the Marxist concepts of victim and oppressor by appealing to our sinful nature to lord it over one another (Mark 10:42);

And the cited 2019 resolution:

>>WHEREAS, Today’s predominant culture of higher education presents a particular challenge to the Gospel and the Church, and seeks to destroy the faith of the next generation, due to the prevalence of current academic theories such as post-modernism, relativism, progressive education, constructivism, social/restorative justice, intersectionality, pedagogy of oppression, and other harmful ideologies;

What confuses me is that oppression is mentioned almost 200 times in Scripture, and there's not enough specificity above (I submitted a comment to the floor committee asking for this to be added) to distinguish the scriptural understanding of the concept from the bogeyman of Marxism. Does anyone know of any resources on the topic? I scanned the CTCR, and all I got was stuff about persecution of Christians.

Thank you!

Psalms 72:1, 4

[1] Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to a king’s son.

[4] May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor.

With this year's overtures to officially recognize a martyr at convention, I'm curious if anyone has a list of currently recognized martyrs. Our observations page lists mostly reformers, church fathers, and Bible figures, and I found a few more reformers and later mentioned in the Reporter.

Is this a common form of convention resolution? If so, I'd love to read more.