Let Lament Lead to These 12 Actions
To our elected representatives, you too, face one question: Will you value people over profits?
Taking Biblical Economic Justice Seriously
Do evangelicals see who is really winning in this economy?
The Truth of Jesus and the Lies of Trump
Trump is not just lying. He is engaged in a war on the truth.
Let’s Change Course Starting This Tax Day
This tax law makes me weep for who we have become as a nation. We are failing our people.
Jesus Calls Us to Be Political, Not Partisan – Keep the Johnson Amendment
Faith and political partisanship are to be neither confused nor conflated.
Record Profits, Income Inequality, Global Poverty, and a New Jubilee? – An Interview with Eric LeCompte
MAY 5, 2014 | BY: JAMIE CALLOWAY-HANAUER -- Eric LeCompte is the Executive Director of Jubilee USA, where he represents a diverse coalition of faith communities in the common cause of...
Interests of the Wealthy Elite and Myth of Government “Inefficiency”
SEPT 25, 2013 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- It is to the advantage of the power and wealth elite to convince others that the government...
Robbing the Rich: Biblical Concern or Political Preoccupation?
BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- Humans are stewards rather than full owners of the property they hold. Rather....
Covetous Leaders: How the Religious Right gets it Exactly Wrong
The authors of the Bible did not write with a constitutional democracy in mind. Nevertheless scripture offers guidance that can be useful to us in our own present situation. Though the Bible has nothing t...
Again, Who Would Jesus Tax?
I tend not to be impressed when politicians use god-words. In fact I’m immediately suspicious. It seems to me that pandering to religious folks rather than the glorification of God is the goal. Too often t...