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October 2025

October 29, 2025

The Social Vision of the Gospel

Ultimately, this social vision is a direct challenge to the status quo. It is good...

October 28, 2025

The Social Revolution at the Heart of the Beatitudes

Luke’s beatitudes are another example of the social revolution toward the common good at the...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 3 of 3)

Our choices show not only what kind of people we want to be; they also...

February 16, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 2 of 3)

Jesus recommended nakedness in protest over returning violence with more violence.

February 15, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 1 of 3)

We reject any interpretation that demands we feel some kind of love or positive emotion...

September 2021

September 09, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 3 of 3)

This story is, on the other hand, encouraging Jesus' followers to resist as he did...

September 08, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 2 of 3)

If you believe that acceptance of suffering gives life, then your resources for confronting perpetrators...

September 07, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 1 of 3)

Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of “taking up one’s cross” to prioritize themselves...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

Using Violence to Shape Our World

It is up to the communities that face oppression to determine what methods they will...

March 16, 2020

Shaping a New World at the End of Our Present System

Will we be a source of genuine light in our world’s oppression and exploitation, or...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

Push Back from the Establishment

Where do you see establishment push back against a vision of future society that is...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

The Kind of Resurrection I Want No Part Of

A resurrection that doesn’t follow standing with those on the undersides and edges of society...

January 22, 2020

Taking Up One’s Cross and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering

When those in power choose to threaten crosses for those standing up to systemic injustice,...

January 08, 2020

Embracing Societal Justice Even When It’s Scary

What can we learn from the passages above? It’s a lamentation that applies to all...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

Economic Justice and Jesus’ Straight and Narrow

“Aristotle also saw this same truth: ‘Poverty is the cause of the defects of democracy....

December 02, 2019

Stand Up Anyway

I don’t believe that we must pass through fire and sword to get to a...

October 2019

October 28, 2019

Jesus’ Gehenna in the Context of Social Justice

We are to oppose injustice and resist oppression. Let’s do it together in a way...

October 11, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 10)

Jesus’ form of nonviolence was an act of self-affirmation in a society where one’s self...

October 04, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming Nonviolence (Part 9)

“Self-defense, in and of itself, is not violence. Violation is violence. Oppression is violence. Injustice...

September 2019

September 27, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 8)

“As followers of Jesus, especially ones who choose to embrace Jesus’ rejection of violence, we...

September 20, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming Nonviolence (Part 7)

If Jesus taught nonviolence, why does the rest of the Bible seem to endorse or...

September 13, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming Nonviolence (Part 6)

“He was not about keeping the peace, not disturbing the status quo, but about calling...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 5)

"We must be much more scandalized by the institutional violence that leads to violent rebellion...

August 23, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 4)

We’ve been discussing the importance of listening to those on the margins of society and...

August 16, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming, Nonviolence (Part 3)

"Jesus was teaching the rejection of violent responses to this world’s evil. Yet he was...

August 12, 2019

Responses of Passive Apathy

Change doesn’t have to come through such violent upheaval. It could start today. Here. Now....

August 09, 2019

Reading Jesus from the Margins

For many, only when they discover for themselves the Jesus in the story from the...

August 07, 2019

Responding to Rejection

I can’t help but notice that history is cyclical. We in our society today may...

August 02, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming, Nonviolence (Part 2)

Today we live in the wake of these changes. Christianity and its Jesus fell in...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Sheep Among Wolves and the Power of Community

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