A pandemic provides a unique moment for us to critique our present order or system and to begin both dreaming up and working toward a better way of organizing human communities shaped by justice, equity, inclusion and compassion for everyone. Read more
April 2, 2020
A Society Where Everyone has a Seat at the Table
April 2, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
Our challenge is to shape a society that reflects a set of values that shape our world into a safe, compassionate, just home for us all—a world where each of us has a seat at the table. Read more
March 27, 2020
People Over Profit and Jesus’ Problematic Story Choices
March 27, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
Jesus’ vision is of a world where the hungry are fed, those who weep now laugh, and the poor receive it all. It’s a world whose coming into being is good news to the poor, the imprisoned, the exploited, and the oppressed. In Jesus’ world view you could not serve both God (taking care of people) and money. Read more
March 25, 2020
Our Hope Depends on Compassion
March 25, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
And this is precisely why our future can be different than our present. We can choose a future of compassion and justice for one another. We can choose to be our siblings’ keeper. The future is not set in stone. It is open, filled with multiple possibilities based on the choices we make today. Read more
March 23, 2020
When Economic Reversal Catches the Elite by Surprise
March 23, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
This wakefulness means possessing a continuing awareness of issues related to marginalized people and their struggle for justice. It requires an intersectional awareness of racial, gender, economic, LGBT, and other social forms of justice. Read more
March 20, 2020
We Are Not Just Passing Through
March 20, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
“Jesus modeled how we can be conduits of healing to this world, and we are to be about setting that healing in motion. We must be about restoration, not relocation; our goal should not be to depart, but to remain, doing as much good as we can in the time we have been given.” Read more
March 18, 2020
Using Violence to Shape Our World
March 18, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
It is up to the communities that face oppression to determine what methods they will use to liberate themselves. It must not be determined for them by their oppressors. Jesus stood within his own oppressed community and taught that nonviolence was the better way. Read more
March 16, 2020
Shaping a New World at the End of Our Present System
March 16, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
Will we be a source of genuine light in our world’s oppression and exploitation, or will we choose a blinding light that actually results in death for us all? James Douglass offers hope: “How does one live at the [potential] end of the world? By beginning a new one.” Read more
March 13, 2020
A Community of Healing Justice
March 13, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
“At its source, it’s not about a lone hero who does something revolutionary on our behalf. It’s a call to participate, with others, in a community of healing justice.” Read more
March 11, 2020
The “Kingdom of God” is within You
March 11, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
This individualistic interpretation makes the kingdom abstract. It does not address systemic injustice, oppression, or violence in concrete ways. This might explain why this interpretation resonates largely with the elites. Read more
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