This says to me that it is better to deal with things now, at this stage, than to deal with them later. Change is coming and there’s no way around it. Read more
This says to me that it is better to deal with things now, at this stage, than to deal with them later. Change is coming and there’s no way around it. Read more
If ever there were a warning for privileged elites to make restitution to the masses at whose expense they had accumulated their wealth and power, this is a textbook example. Read more
The present pandemic is laying bare other areas of our unsustainable and unjust system. What would a world look like that is a safe, compassionate, inclusive, and just home for all of God’s children? Read more
Prisons are being revealed to be places of mass death placing all inmates, regardless of their charges, on a kind of death row. Read more
And in the context of the golden rule, these two things have caught my attention over the past few weeks as we all respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
We may still be a long way from our desired outcome, but we can make progress. Our efforts may be interrupted, delayed, or even halted, but that doesn’t mean we have necessarily failed. Read more
In this story, Jesus models how we, too, can stop, listen and ask ourselves whether this may be a moment where we can choose to learn from those whose social location is more marginalized than our own. Read more
Jesus was a conduit of change, and he called his followers to be conduits of change, as well. Today, we too can choose to be conduits of change. Yet change never comes without pushback. Read more
Moments like these not only call us to reassess our systems but also our own personal values and the values our societies have been built on: the systems we are accustomed to and our own personal action and behaviors are connected. Read more
The Jesus story’s new wine pushes us beyond the skins of a system that only punishes to systems that restore and transform. Read more
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