Worth Fighting For: A Word from the Desens House
Standing in the midst of that house in chaos felt like a refection on the chaos of my soul over the past few years. After being very active in our church, I had hit a season of exhaustion and burnout.
Jesus, Justice, and the Suffering of the Marginalized
Yet, where we see suffering, we often see Jesus. Jesus’ arrival in the Gerasenes shows us how he breaks into the marginalized areas of our societies where those who are suffering have been left to languish.
The Racist Policing of China and the United States
Two massive injustices happening against two different groups of people in two different nations of the world should be equally addressed, simultaneously lamented, and simultaneously confronted.
Evangelicals Dangerous Understanding of Jesus
Given their belief in a limited amount of available goods and resources in the world, coupled with the cultural belief that, because everyone was created in the image of God, everyone was entitled to their own fair share of those goods, it was a small step to the conclusion that anyone who accumulated more wealth than others did so by unjustly depriving their neighbors of their own rightful portion.
Announcing a Season of Non-Violent Moral Direct Action
If we cannot refuse cooperation with voter suppression now, we have no hope of representation in the coming decade that will work to address the interconnected crises of climate catastrophe, inequality, systemic racism, and militarism.
The Uncomfortable In-Between
Discomfort leads us to a place where we are bothered when we compare what we have to what others don’t have.
Mother Earth Has Suffered Enough: We Need Stronger Methane Rules
Rains and snows came when they were supposed to, bringing much needed refreshing to our community and land. Now, we are in a prolonged drought. We are in a national sacrifice zone with the nation’s largest methane hotspot hovering overhead.
3 Roots of Discrimination in God’s Church
You may be surprised what people deem as secular society is not where I’ve experienced the most discrimination as a person who is differently abled.
To Get Our Nation Back On Track, We Need A ‘Holy Recovery’
Scarcity has been the name of the game for far too long in American politics. We are constantly offered a choice between which group of people is forced to go without, in the name of austerity.
Blessing a Cultural Threshold
A threshold is a place of letting go of an old identity and waiting on a new identity to emerge. It is a liminal moment when the sacred is being born in us, a time of unravelling and slowly reknitting back together.