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Throw the pebble
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down…
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Injustice in the time of coronavirus
A couple of days in lament isn’t going to cool me off when it comes to injustice. SOOOO… here is your warning. I will keep going on matters of racism and injustice for a bit. It is out of lament. It is out of a deep hunger to get our souls bared before the Righteous Judge… and maybe get us…
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Justice — the longing of the human race
Read Matthew 25:31-46 Some thoughts from NT Wright:
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Eyes on the marginalized
In how I go forward in a politically divisive age, I continue to formulate my thoughts around the WHY and the WHO. I listen regularly to Pass the Mic podcast because it comes from two young black Christian men. One is a historian. The other is a pastor. They bring perspective that challenges me and makes me think, especially when…
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The immorality of our nation
“Millions of Americans are coming to see that we are fighting an immoral war that costs nearly thirty billion dollars a year, that we are perpetuating racism, that we are tolerating almost forty million poor during an overflowing of material abundance. Yet they remain helpless to end the war, to feed the hungry, to make brotherhood a reality; this has…
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The simplicity (and complexity) of the Kingdom of God
This concept can’t be avoided in Scripture (though we do a good job of trying). The gospel, the Kingdom, is this simple (and yet, this difficult): “How long will you defend the unjustand show partiality to the wicked?Defend the weak and the fatherless;uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.Rescue the weak and the needy;deliver them from the hand…
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Dr. King and our continual call
I will continually go back to “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” on this weekend. Every time I draw something new from his challenge to folks like me… white moderates. I hear his rebuke to me more clearly each time. I will continually draw from Dr. King throughout the year. This is a lesson I’ve established in these past few years,…
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We CAN make a difference
I read Just Mercy almost two years ago and it has added to my education on racial justice. The movie is out and I have not seen it yet, but will write more when I have seen it.
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The work we still need to do
In reading the book The End of Hunger, there was the good news combined with the challenge. The good news was that a massive amount of work has been accomplished in the past 25 years. Severe hunger is being reduced statistically. The bad news is that the last bit to go to eliminate the issue by 2030 is still costly.…
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Wage peace with food
One last post (for now) on the book The End of Hunger. (Basic book review is HERE.) While we have a lot of good news over the last few decades in the cause to end hunger, the last few years have had their toll. The biggest issue: conflict. Those in need of emergency assistance (meaning they have no other way…
Category: Justice
