August 2023 - Social Jesus

August 31, 2023

How we define bearing a cross makes a difference in how we respond to injustice...

August 31, 2023

This is a far cry from counseling early followers to passively bear injustice, but a...

August 29, 2023

For better or worse, they interpreted the cross in terms of participation not substitution or...

August 24, 2023

Today, however, it is much more life giving to speak of correcting injustices without using...

August 23, 2023

This title referred much more to someone who would establish justice on Earth, ending oppression...

August 22, 2023

The great hope was the setting right of all injustice, the putting right of all...

August 17, 2023

She also uses his language against him to show him how blinkered his understanding is.

August 16, 2023

This sounds a lot like the way all of us grow and learn: through experience...

August 15, 2023

This is important to name because using this term as a pejorative slur is historically...

August 10, 2023

Working for social change, whether within faith communities or outside of them, can be hard...

August 09, 2023

As strange as this story may be to us today, it would not have been...

August 08, 2023

First, let’s acknowledge how strange a story like this is to our post-enlightenment, science informed...

August 03, 2023

Practicing a social, political or economic ethic in harmony with the belief that God loves...

August 02, 2023

Forgetting the communal purpose of the Eucharist and its lessons of sharing our resources was...

August 01, 2023

The path of life for the future is always one of enoughism, one of sharing,...