God is with the vulnerable and the poor. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunities and lives. God is with us, if we are with them.
Dear Christian, God doesn’t need your defense. Jesus doesn’t need your defense. Christianity doesn’t need your defense. The Bible doesn’t need your defense. The Ten Commandments don’t need your defense. The poor, the powerless, the marginalized, the vulnerable, and...
...there's an immediate relationship between God, oppression, liberation: God is in the poor who cry out. And God is the one who listens to the cry and liberates, so that the poor no longer need to cry out.
To read the Gospels in the spirit with which they were written, it is not enough to ask what Jesus did or said. We must ask what Jesus meant by his strange words and deeds. For example, whenever the subject of poverty comes up in some circles, someone is bound to...
Christians. I’ve checked everywhere and I cannot find the following anywhere in the Bible: Cast out the poor from you for their woes are not your responsibility. Ship them someplace else if you need to or if all else fails wall them out. Nope. Choose first your people...
Is it that hard to understand that if it benefits the rich and powerful while making life more difficult for the poor and vulnerable, it contradicts everything Jesus taught.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Christianity can be confusing, but the way of Jesus was pretty clear. Move toward the poorEmpower the womanCreate space at the tableThrow partiesWiden the family boundariesPoke holes in oppressive systemsDon't retaliate with violenceForgive your enemyDon't store up...
Christmas reminds us that God didn’t become an emperor controlling an empire. God didn’t become a general commanding legions. God didn’t become a creed, a Bible, or a set of doctrines to be imposed. God became a helpless baby born to a poor family desperately in need...
Think of a single mother who goes to the Church or the Parish, and tells the secretary: I WANT TO BAPTIZE MY SON." And the attendant says: No, you can't, because you're not married.. Let's keep in mind that this mother had the courage to continue with a pregnancy, and...