Oppression dehumanizes everyone involved. By dehumanizing another, we lose our own humanity, and when we stand up for the humanity of others, we’re also reclaiming our own humanity as well as the humanity of those being harmed. Read more
Oppression dehumanizes everyone involved. By dehumanizing another, we lose our own humanity, and when we stand up for the humanity of others, we’re also reclaiming our own humanity as well as the humanity of those being harmed. Read more
And another iteration of our present world is possible where people who are different are no longer feared and rejected, but included and even centered. Read more
If you’ve been rejected by others, your voice is centered in God’s just future. Those who have been rejected in unjust social structures are the cornerstones of the human community the Jesus story announces. Read more
Rejection was a familiar theme for the early followers of Jesus. How can we reclaim these stories in ways that today are life-giving? Read more
That’s why I don’t interpret this story to be solely about prayer. That would leave injustice untouched in our present world, and leave those who face oppression daily dangerously close to passivity. Read more
That’s what this widow did. She made the life of the magistrate uncomfortable until he did something. We are called to do the same in relation to our legislators today. Read more
This widow was pleading for equity, what today could be called social justice, and justice came after her prolonged effort to make the judge uncomfortable. Read more
Collective choices create change. None of us can change the world all by ourselves, but together we can accomplish great and beautiful things. Read more
It’s not a gospel of mercy, grace, and forgiveness that releases us from a Divine, punitive retribution, but of mercy, grace, and forgiveness of debt that gives birth to distributive, restorative, transformative, and reparative justice. Death is overcome by life and not avoided with greater death-dealing. Read more
In the story, it was the elite and privileged who felt this disgust and loathing. Today, it’s those on the margins of society, those who have been hurt by Christianity. Read more
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