This Lent Find Your Calling: NO to the Religious justifications of War & Ecocide
BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- Lent starts with us following Christ into the desert to find our calling in Christ’s. To enter into what Thomas Merton...
Lent Like God’s New World Is Underway: An Introduction
BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- How might our contemplation during Lent be transformed if we kept these two often forgotten realities at the forefront...
Do You Hear the People Sing? M.L. King & Les Misérables’ case for a Socialism of Grace
BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- Many know of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. Fewer know of Dr. King’s...
Occupying God's Vision of Jubilee
I'm so excited to see this US example of alternative economics: the Rolling Jubilee! It's self described as "a bailout of the people by the people" in which the project buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but...
10 Days to Make Love Practical
Have you ever felt moved to put it all on the line?
Have you ever felt called to risk it all for the love we undergo when we open to God?
The community that I was a part of founding where I have spent the las...
The Olympics, Human Rights, and Holy Mischief
"God Is Love, " inscribed on the tracksuit of the athlete who would become the second-fastest man alive, is what first caught the attention of Australian Olympic official Ray Weinberg in the early '60s. But it...
Looking Forward with Patience
“Don’t start me on stories!” - Dr. Vincent Harding.
In light of both the Government and Coalition’s failure to let their yes be yes to the global poor, I want to share two stories. One is from Martin Luther...
What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change
Early in the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin said to King, "I have a feeling that the Lord had laid his hand upon you. And that is a dangerous, dangerous thing." Similarly, the FBI once described Marti...
What Would Jesus Occupy? Faith & #Occupy Wall Street
It might sound like a set up for a punchline; two God’s Politics contributors, a Muslim professor, an economist, a theologian and translator of Zizek’s work, and an Benedictine Abbott step into radio studi...
Steve Jobs, God’s Vision & Here I Stand: #OccupyWallStreet NOT Afghanistan
This week marks ten years since the occupation of Afghanistan started. I’ve just sat down to throw some thoughts on paper in between speaking engagements in New Zealand. The news here is all Rugby World Cup and...