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August 2025

August 07, 2025

Bending Our World’s Moral Arc Toward Justice

That famous moral arc of justice requires deliberate and courageous efforts from those who choose...

August 06, 2025

A More Just Distribution of Wealth

This is why the poor, the hungry, the mourning are blessed: a community of just...

August 05, 2025

A World Where Everyone Has Enough

It’s a world where everyone has enough to thrive and no one is hoarding more...

August 01, 2025

The Problematic Responsiblity of Wealth

Faith traditions, moral philosophies, and humanitarian values all speak to the sacred responsibility that comes...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

Each Other’s Fate

The dilemma is that we are each other’s fate. Society can become mutually supportive or...

July 30, 2025

Jesus as Prophet of the Poor

And in the gospel stories, Jesus emerged in Galilee as a prophet of the poor....

October 2024

October 10, 2024

God and Money, Part 3

No one can serve two masters. You will hate the one and love the other....

October 09, 2024

God and Money, Part 2

The human dilemma in regards to most everything including money is, in large part, that...

October 08, 2024

God and Money, Part 1

This week’s reading gets to the heart of one of the central teachings of the...

August 2022

August 05, 2022

Envisioning a World of Care (Part 3 of 3)

This week's reading can lead us to discussions about things like taxes, wealth limits, redistribution,...

August 04, 2022

Envisioning a World of Care (Part 2 of 3)

Instead, we see him teaching a more socialized way of living here on earth that...

August 03, 2022

Envisioning a World of Care (Part 1 of 3)

The first portion of this week’s reading centers on the ethics of resource-sharing and wealth...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

Sharing More Than We Need (Part 3 of 3)

When we do this, we are creating a new world, setting in motion a world...

July 27, 2022

Sharing More Than We Need (Part 2 of 3)

In the story, when we find ourselves with more than what we ourselves need to...

July 26, 2022

Sharing More Than We Need (Part 1 of 3)

We are socialized by our U.S. culture to be uneasy here. Lean into this discomfort.

July 23, 2021

Enough for Everyone (Part 3 of 3)

Various expressions of Christianity have likewise been complicit in seizing power. Powerful Christians have cooperated...

July 22, 2021

Enough for Everyone (Part 2 of 3)

This social consciousness appears to be part of the fabric of what it meant to...

July 21, 2021

Enough for Everyone (Part 1 of 3)

Among the canonical gospels, there are six versions of this story. Resource-sharing was central to...

July 01, 2021

A Community of Dependence and Connectedness (Part 3 of 3)

we take responsibility for taking care of one another, not to establish dependency, but because...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

A Community of Dependence and Connectedness (Part 2 of 3)

In our context, American capitalistic individualism and independence, which too often masquerade as freedom, dependence as...

June 29, 2021

A Community of Dependence and Connectedness (Part 1 of 3)

What does it actually mean for the empire of God to come? It begins with...

March 2020

March 20, 2020

We Are Not Just Passing Through

"Jesus modeled how we can be conduits of healing to this world, and we are...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

We Are All In This Together

We are all in this together. The choices we make affect us all. And although...

November 23, 2019

Jesus’ Call for Wealth Redistribution

Jesus’ definition of wealth as the exploitation of the poor and his call for wealth...

November 20, 2019

Choosing a World Shaped by Compassion

This world is not based on a win-lose closed system, but a win-win where we...

November 18, 2019

“On Earth As It Is In Heaven”

It called people to stop solving the challenges of survival for themselves at the expense...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Looting the Strong Man

These conversations often remind me of our deep need to differentiate between self-defense on the...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Overcoming Fear of Following Jesus’ Social Gospel

We must allow the context of this saying to confront us, to inspire us to...

August 26, 2019

A Prayer for Societal Justice and an End to Violence

We can make a choice to subvert our culture’s tendency to value property over people...

August 05, 2019

Jesus and Marginalized Communities

The Jesus we meet in the Jesus story resonated with the marginalized and oppressed of...

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