In June 2016, we published a newsletter on helping refugees through our work. In the light of current events, we think that...
Psalm 82 envisions a heavenly court in which God, as judge, pronounces judgment on the gods for their failure to do justice (82:1). Verses 3 and 4 contain divine imperatives, not only for heavenly...
The important people of the land have practiced extortion and have committed robbery. They’ve oppressed the poor and mistreated the immigrant. They’ve...
Martin Luther King, Jr., was somebody. On that, few people disagree. Born in Atlanta in 1929, he whizzed through school, skipping both ninth and twelfth grades. His college entrance exam score...
"Remember, we don't need to tip more than ten percent," I whispered to my husband. "That's the going rate."
I used to preach freedom from oppression vicariously through my student’s stories, but I wasn’t experiencing freedom for myself. I needed a...
“When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not...
A young African man saw the misery around him, and he grew angry. He asked his minister why people had to suffer. He cried, "Why doesn't God do something?"
Exodus 21 contains one of the most familiar phrases in the whole Bible: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” (21:24). Often called the Lex Talionis (Latin for “law of...
