injustice – Red Letter Christians

Stop Lying on God: white ‘Evangelical’ Bible Illiteracy Upholds Status Quo

May 31, 2022

There is no such thing as justice outside of community. There would be no need for it. It wouldn't exist. The sin that is injustice can't be done in isolation. We don't sin in abstract ways. We sin by going against the will of God but the effects are experienced by others as well as ourselves.

A Call to the Transformational, Lifelong Work of Antiracism

Idelette McVicker

May 5, 2022

Global, Race

I had been on a quest for years to prove to the world how not racist I was. Sitting in that room, facing the ugliest of truths about myself and my story, I finally stopped hiding. I no longer needed to hide or to prove to the world that I was a good white person. I wasn’t. I was a recovering racist.

A Here-and-Not-Yet Gospel of Peace

Anna Kelly

December 20, 2021

Books, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

Too often, we have numbed the aches and groans of the world in a false peace that seeks to resolve and explain away our neighbor’s pain (or worse yet, to blame them for it).

A Time to Grieve

Terri Wilkins

October 18, 2021

General, Global, Practical Justice

Then I return to bearing witness, recognizing that there is indeed a time for grief, and we are in that time.

Bishop Barber’s Remarks to the Vatican Conference on Ending Poverty

William J. Barber

October 6, 2021

General, Global, Practical Justice

I am honored to be here at the Vatican on the feast of St. Francis to share with you on behalf of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in my home, the United States of America.

In Opposition of the Line 3 Pipeline

Brian McLaren

September 16, 2021

Creation & Environment, Global, Practical Justice

Now, four years later, I want to follow up the heartfelt message of that video by expressing my public opposition to the Line 3 pipeline — and by asking you to add your voice as well.

Evangelicals Dangerous Understanding of Jesus

Obery Hendricks

July 21, 2021

Books, Practical Justice, Theology

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.

Blessing a Cultural Threshold

Dori Baker

July 9, 2021

Church Life, LGBTQ+, Practical Justice

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.

Walking in the Shadow

Kendra Weddle

July 6, 2021

General, Global, Practical Justice

We have experienced a long night where we have been brought face-to-face with the staggering inequities pervading our society. No longer are we able to say we didn’t know, for we have seen with our eyes, heard with our ears, witnessed in multiple ways, how those on our margins have been left in Egypt to fend for themselves.