Category: Justice

‘What’s wrong with the world today’

March 31, 2022

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) As the story goes, The [London] Times once sent out an inquiry to famous authors asking the question “What’s wrong with the world today?” to which author G.K. Chesterton replied: “Dear Sir, I am. Yours, G.K. Chesterton.” Although there is no proof of this since…
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Just-as-if they were you

March 25, 2022

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! Amos 5:24 Here’s what…
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Justice in everyday life

March 24, 2022

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) It’s an injustice when where you live determines whether you live. Right here in America there are zip codes in the same city where there can be a difference of as much as 20 years in the average life span of a person. It’s an injustice when…
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God, made public

March 23, 2022

(Click here for a video ofJohn reading today’s Catch.) There can be no debate about this: God is on the side of the poor, the weak, the disenfranchised and the powerless. God is in the business of setting things right. That is what justice is. It’s putting everyone on equal footing. It’s raising up the…
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I think I’m missing something

March 22, 2022

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) What word appears 130 times in the Old Testament and15 times in the New (used mostly by Jesus) but hardly ever shows up in the language of evangelical Christians? What word has such political overtones that it galvanizes the polarization of believers when it should…
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Stairway to heaven?

March 11, 2022

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) According to James, your faith in Christ has to be evidenced in your attitudes, your treatment of others, and your overall actions or else you are fooling yourself with your faith. No wonder some of the early fathers of the church didn’t want the Book…
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Listening to millennials

September 8, 2021

We need to start listening to millennials. They are sensitive to things that are near to the heart of God, but have been overlooked by evangelicals for decades. Take just the single issue of justice. I grew up dead center of an evangelical environment and the whole idea of justice is foreign to me. We…
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Celebrating a homecoming

June 9, 2021

Last night in our fascinating interview with Os Guinness about his new book, The Magna Carta of Humanity, he mentioned how President Biden talks about reclaiming the soul of America, and the former President spoke about Making America Great Again, but neither one of them went back far enough to talk about and embrace what…
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Deep reflection

January 18, 2021

During the civil rights march on Washington in 1963, when Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, Peter, Paul and Mary sang to thousands who had gathered there with the Washington Monument towering behind them. I thought of that moment today for a number of reasons. One, because this is Martin…
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Where is Nelson Mandela when we need him?

October 23, 2020

In our interview with Os Guinness this week, he spoke of his admiration for America even though he is not himself an American, because of the revolution of 1776 and the great experiment of democracy which formed a vision for the country and a government that adopted a biblical basis for governing that at least…
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America in crisis

October 21, 2020

Well I know I can’t tell you what to do, but I can pretend I can when I tell you you must listen to last night’s interview with Os Guinness. Os is a brilliant author, thinker and social critic with global insight and a strong Christian conscience. Born in China during World War II to…
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Revolutionary Jesus

September 15, 2020

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.” Luke 4:18 Why is this a…
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Jesus was a Capricorn

September 8, 2020

Jesus was a Capricorn He ate organic food He believed in love and peace And never wore no shoes Long hair, beard and sandals And a funky bunch of friends Reckon we’d just nail him up If he came down again ‘Cause everybody’s gotta have somebody to look down on Prove they can be…
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Caring about justice

June 12, 2020

The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. (Proverbs 29:7) A quick perusal of the use of the word “justice” in the Bible reveals something that is key to the nature of God. “For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing” (Isaiah 61:8). Numerous times…
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