When we are filled with love for other people, injustice becomes intolerable.
02179 – Injustice becomes Intolerable
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02163 – Denunciation of Injustice
The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order. from A Theology of Liberation
02104 – Disney Princess Theology
White Christianity suffers from a bad case of Disney Princess Theology. As each individual reads Scripture they see themselves as the princess in every story. They are Esther, never Xerxes or Haman. They are Peter, never Judas. They are the woman anointing Jesus,...
01964 – Working for Social Justice
The invitation to work for social justice is one of the essential, nonnegotiable pillars within Christian spirituality... Social justice has to do with changing the way the world is organized so as to make a level playing field for everyone. In simple terms this means...
01796 – The Answer to Injustice
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.
01686 – Help Change the Earth
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
01449 – Are We Making the World More Gracious?
The question is not whether we should mix Christianity and politics. To follow Jesus is to be political. The issue is whether our understanding of Christianity makes the world more gracious or less gracious. Do we work against injustice, oppression, greed, and...
01110 – Still Overcoming Evil with Good
It is only the infinite mercy and love of God that has prevented us from tearing ourselves to pieces and destroying His entire creation long ago. People seem to think that it is in some way a proof that no merciful God exists, if we have so many wars. On the contrary,...
00639 – The Point of Jesus’ Meals
First, the point of Jesus’ meals—from the loaves-and-fishes ones to the bread-and-wine one—is to insist on shared meals as the mandate of divine justice in a world not our own. If, as God asserts in Leviticus 25:23, “The land is mine; with me you are but aliens and...
00488 – God’s Kingdom: A Utopian Dream?
As a political-religious metaphor, the kingdom of God referred to what life would be like on earth if God were king and the kingdoms of this world, the domination systems of this world, were not… The kingdom of God was not only for the earth, but involved a...