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October 2025

October 30, 2025

Zacchaeus and the Gospel Call for Wealth Redistribution

Zacchaeus demonstrates that economic justice is central to spiritual renewal, addressing income inequality is a...

September 2025

September 23, 2025

Justice Today or a Great Reversal Tomorrow

This story uses the then-popular belief of a great reversal coming to all in the...

September 18, 2025

Community Through Redistribution of Wealth

This was a community built through redistribution of wealth. It was about forging bonds through...

September 17, 2025

The Dishonest Manager and the Tools of the Powerless

The manager is using a weapon of the powerless. They have to find ways of...

September 16, 2025

Wealth Redistribution in the Gospels

Spiritualized this story of wealth redistribution givess off the impression that something is intentionally missing.

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...

January 2025

January 23, 2025

A Gospel of Wealth Redistribution

The poor and economic justice were one of those themes. The kind of wealth redistribution...

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 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 02, 2020

The Parable of the Lost Coin and the Societal Elite

"Justice is not giving people who have been marginalized or discriminated against simply an equal...

February 2020

February 03, 2020

Jesus’ More Unpopular Economic Teachings

"I agree with Robinson. Jesus' vision for the world was one where people took care...

January 2020

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 09, 2019

Social Location Matters

Social location matters. Listening to how certain theologies impact those on the undersides or edges...

December 04, 2019

Inability to Rightly Evaluate What’s Happening

Racial tensions have escalated over the past four years. Sexist tensions have escalated. Homophobic and...

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...

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...