The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
03521 – Understanding Interdependence
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03491 – Following Jesus
When you take the Way of Jesus seriously, you encounter resistance. Jesus calls us to love our enemies, but society kills our enemies. Jesus calls us to Jubilee, but ours is a nation of debt. Jesus calls us to befriend the ostracized, but ours is a society of...
03408 – Patriarchy Protects Men, not Women
Patriarchy isn’t about protecting women; it’s about protecting men. It's about preserving male rule over the home, church, and society, often at the expense of women.
03342 – We’re 100% Human
Nobody is born Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Atheist, Republican, Democrat. People are born human and are conditioned by narratives and ideologies of race, religion, culture, politics, nationality, and society. This is not necessarily a...
03302 – White House vs. YOUR House
You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
03260 – Continuing Down this Path…
If we continue down this path of anthropomorphizing corporations and dehumanizing people, if we continue to look at the financial cost of helping people rather than the moral cost of not helping them, we will find ourselves living in a society increasingly devoid of...
03245 – Commitment to Public Schools
Far too often, communities lack the resources or the commitment to invest adequately in their public schools. We need to understand that quality education for every single person in our society is essential to our future. from A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends
03064 – Saints are Everywhere!
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
03061 – Great Moral Leaders
Great moral leaders dare humanity to look beyond current possibilities. Moral leaders, regardless of their faith, channel an eschatological hope—a dream of what might be. The great leaders take ideas that society considers radical, naïve, outlandish, or a threat and...
03033 – Violence is Immoral
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent...