Our passage above is a warning for times like right now. It is a warning against failing to recognize what genuinely brings hope to a society or community and what has the potential to destroy a society or community altogether. Read more
Our passage above is a warning for times like right now. It is a warning against failing to recognize what genuinely brings hope to a society or community and what has the potential to destroy a society or community altogether. Read more
It is far easier to talk about Jesus than the things Jesus talked about. Why? Because what Jesus talked about has the potential to change our world. Read more
If Jesus taught nonviolence, why does the rest of the Bible seem to endorse or even command violence? Read more
"In very general terms, this is a saying that warns about reality after liberation becoming worse, seven times worse, than the state of things before." Read more
"The work of ending the suffering for so many is being labeled as dangerous and of 'the satan' in an effort to prevent certain people’s position of power and privilege within their society from being threatened." Read more
“He was not about keeping the peace, not disturbing the status quo, but about calling for justice, the justice that in the Jewish tradition was to be the foundation of peace. Peace was not the absence of conflict but about the fruit of distributive, societal justice.” Read more
These conversations often remind me of our deep need to differentiate between self-defense on the part of those in a lower or more marginal social location and those who hold certain degrees of power and privilege and using violence to protect and keep that privilege. Read more
It is one thing to be deceived and mistake something evil for something good. It is an entirely different matter to be threatened by a change for good, accuse it of being evil and of the devil, and fight against it to keep it from influencing your world in spite of how much suffering it would end for so many. Read more
"We must be much more scandalized by the institutional violence that leads to violent rebellion than the violence of those who stand up to institutional violence. They are not the same. One is primary and the source or cause of all the other." Read more
We must allow the context of this saying to confront us, to inspire us to take specific economic action, and not to give us false hope about prayer. When we minimize the economic or social meaning of this passage, we only set ourselves up for grief when our expectations aren’t met. Read more
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