If our social justice is guided by retribution, we will simply perpetuate the use and abuse of power to inflict violence.

If our desire for justice is not rooted primarily in the pursuit of restoration, then reconciliation will be nearly impossible to achieve. It is precisely because grace is undeserved that makes it grace.

Selective solidarity exposes the self-serving impulse to bolster ones ego (and ease ones conscience), all while avoiding the necessarily difficult and costly practices of allyship for the cheap knock-off of performative compassion.

The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us—poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction—where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.

The seeds of liberation are planted across the common table as we break bread together.

Abstraction is a luxury of the privileged.

Compassion without a commitment to justice is not compassion at all.

It is entirely possible to work for justice without thirsting for blood.