Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts
Monday, June 16, 2025

Injustice is real! Suffering is real! God is real!

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The Dalai Lama has been an admirable symbol of courage around the world and continues to trouble the Chinese Communist regime with his stead...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Giving a voice to the voiceless

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It makes many people queasy nowadays to talk about the wrath of God, but there can be no turning away from this prominent biblical theme. Op...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Justice, mercy, and forgiveness

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The well-known passage in Micah 6:8 (“What does the Lord require of you . . . ?”) declares that justice and mercy are two foundational aspec...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Justice

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This last verse [Deut 10:19] contains a key idea: the care given by the community to its weakest members, and even to those who are not memb...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Your actions are speaking so loud that I…

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What we are coming more and more to realize, however, is that one of the reasons why the world is not responding more to our challenge to ju...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

How do you treat them? It matters!

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The quality of our faith depends upon the character of justice in the land and the character of justice is to be measured by how we treat th...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Rolling coal and restorative justice

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On Bicycling, a look at the “ rolling coal ” case in Texas three years later: https://www.bicycling.com/news/a60747401/waller-texas-coal-rol...
Friday, May 24, 2024

The poor? Who cares...

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It is no accident that laissez-faire democracy has rarely been kind to the poor.— The Holy Longing , 171
Thursday, May 23, 2024

It's bigger than you

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Social justice has to do with changing the way the world is organized so as to make a level playing field for everyone. In simple terms this...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

It's the system!

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Social justice, therefore, tries to look at the system (political, economic, social, cultural, religious, and mythical) within which we live...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

May it be so!

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Sunday, October 02, 2022

Meritocracy in the university setting

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The Atlantic has an interesting article about the myth of meritocracy in the university setting. It got me to thinking. Read the article to...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

But how?

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For Christian engagement with the world, then, patriotically and otherwise, the key word is judiciousness , and the methods are ad hoc. The ...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

Let those who have ears…

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“Cursed is anyone who obstructs the legal rights of immigrants, orphans, or widows.” Deut 27:19 (CEB) Let those who have ears to hear, h...