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"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth." -Martin Luther King Jr. sojo.net/daily-wisdom...

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"By addressing and redressing wrongdoing, transitional justice seeks justice for victims and the transformation of political relationships." (2021) sojo.net/magazine/sep...

"Still, our duty to respond to social vulnerability with urgent care far exceeds our ability to relate to the experiences of others." sojo.net/articles/cis...

“Water is not a luxury, but a human right and theological imperative. When the church fails to respond to the literal thirst of our neighbors, it is not just a moral lapse — it is a spiritual crisis.” sojo.net/magazine/sep...

Read these quotes from a pastor who rose to action against fascism at the cost of his life. sojo.net/articles/11-...

"May we seek peace, O God of love and justice; / may love and mercy be our highest aims." sojo.net/articles/hym...

"We rarely think of construction equipment as a weapon. How much less do we think of U.S. companies such as Airbnb, Expedia, and Tripadvisor as part of the war machinery?" sojo.net/magazine/sep...

"The twin existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change interact dangerously." sojo.net/magazine/aug...

"Peacemaking is an important responsibility of people who follow Jesus, the Prince of Peace." (2013) sojo.net/articles/int...

"We must reject the principles of Babylon — greed, domination, and oppression — and embrace the more difficult work of compassion and justice modeled by Christ." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Shouldn’t churches see cultural preservation as part of their mission?" sojo.net/magazine/aug...

“I think about migration as a process of transformation ... As you move through space and time, you become something else within the stories you live.” - Francisco Donoso sojo.net/articles/new...

"While toxic polarization poses an existential threat to the health of our democracy it also poses a threat to Christian unity and the very witness of the church." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"The very image of a 'long walk'—the image on which the entirety of King’s story rests—is steeped in spiritual undertones." sojo.net/articles/cul...

"I take my bouquet of despair to the only place big enough to embrace it: the body of Creation." sojo.net/articles/res...

"A series of below-the-fold policy decisions, conservative radicalization, liberal capitulation, dark money transfers, and manufactured moral panics — failed to arrest the attention of the mainstream voting public until it was too late." sojo.net/articles/cul...

"During some of the most intense periods of fighting in the Syrian civil war, the maternal mortality rate in Washington, D.C., was worse than it was in Syria." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"When a person who wrote an album about forgiveness goes on to write a ballad about someone going to hell, it’s hard not to pay attention." (2021) sojo.net/articles/cul...

"More and more Christians from across the theological spectrum want their faith communities to do something about our environmental crises." sojo.net/magazine/sep...

"Functionally, how different is our reality from the dystopian stories of a public desensitized to televised death?" sojo.net/articles/cul...

I'm really proud of this piece I wrote for @sojo.net , which couldn't have released at a more apt time for its subject matter. "No human is expendable, and wherever society’s castoffs forge community is where the gospel finds its most generative soil."

I wrote for @sojo.net this week on the need for a surge of solidarity for our immigrant neighbors. Read my column at sojo.net/articles/opi...

"It’s hard to embrace the Bible’s liberating power when you can’t find yourself in the story, and it’s even harder to show up when you learn you’ve been edited out of it." sojo.net/magazine/jan...

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"Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it—and all meaningful human endeavors—are dead." -Maria Ressa, “How to Stand Up to A Dictator: The Fight for Our Future” (2022) sojo.net/daily-wisdom...

"Understanding God in this way can give us a greater appreciation for Afrodiasporic spiritualities or, in other words, it can prepare us to see God as one who gives preferential treatment to the poor." sojo.net/articles/wha...

"The law, and the circumstances of its enforcement, is no substitute for the priorities of God’s desires for the world." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Whether or not we recognize them, migrants and immigrants are our neighbors, people made in God’s image who are worthy of dignity. As Christians, they deserve our solidarity." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Why did faith matter if it did not transform real bodies, real lives, here on earth?" sojo.net/magazine/may...

"I see world salvation at the hand of the humble hobbits to be an echo of Jesus’ 'upside down kingdom,' where the first shall be last and the last shall be first." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"If you’re looking for a silver lining to the horror that is Trumpism, it’s entirely possible that the world will work better with the United States out of the way." sojo.net/magazine/aug...

"The most vulnerable among us do not have the luxury of continuing as normal." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Read through these words of radical rest, and then, maybe, just go take a nap. sojo.net/articles/30-...

"The way of Jesus refuses to sacrifice the most vulnerable for the comfort of the community." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Thurman also spent the early part of his life questioning his spiritual encounters, searching for the answer to the question, 'What makes you come alive?'" sojo.net/articles/cul...

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Thanks to @rns.org for the opportunity to write about Johnson Amendment protections for faith communities and non-profit organizations. I appreciated the chance to give my perspective both as president of @sojo.net and board chair of @independentsector.bsky.social. religionnews.com/2025/09/17/w...

"For us as Palestinian Christians, what has been most wounding is the response of our many siblings in Christ." -Lamma Mansour sojo.net/articles/opi...

"We are multilingual, multiethnic, and multicultural in a nation that historically punishes difference and forces groups into social hierarchies." sojo.net/magazine/sep...

"And somewhere along the road, in the liminality of 'not-there-yet,' transformation becomes possible." sojo.net/magazine/apr...

"If you want to be a friend of God — and God needs all the friends that God can get in these times — then you will have to work for a better world." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"In biblical times, modern times, and Ozian times, people don’t like to be told that they need to change their ways." sojo.net/articles/cul...

"Where some might concede defeat, Saito calls us to grieve and give of ourselves." sojo.net/magazine/may...

"Activism was done by ordinary people. Yes, they’re extraordinary, but that’s the beauty — all of us are ordinary and extraordinary." sojo.net/articles/int...

"The issues of memory and forgetting [present] not only practical questions, but also spiritual questions." sojo.net/articles/int...

"We become possessed when we deny our own thoughts, creativity, and problem solving, instead acting on the flawed and often hallucinatory feedback of a chatbot." sojo.net/articles/opi...

"Where some might concede defeat, Saito calls us to grieve and give of ourselves." sojo.net/magazine/may...

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