When Jesus says, “Happy are the poor” and “Woe to you the rich,” he is not talking about riches in the absolute sense. That is, he is not condemning the physical fact of having great material resources. There is not that kind of asceticism in Jesus that almost instinctively hates well-being and abundance, the kind […]
Racism as it exists today is not a modern creation. Its theory and practice in society is also a feature found back in feudal Europe. It goes back further still. However the principles are the same and it remains, as it was then, a controlling mechanism of the ruling class; a barrier to the redemptive […]
In the book of Revelation chapter 13 John sees a second beast come up out of the earth. We learn that this second beast exercised all the power of the first beast, or empire, that proceeded it. This beast which came first is what the bible describes as the Roman empire. And truly in history […]
Most people would probably say yes, the Emancipation Proclamation freed the African slaves in 1865. Black people are no longer exploited to work manual labor for the benefit of their owners, but is this the truth? Today maybe no one stands over us with a whip and forces us to work but other methods are […]
So much of our history is centered on the idea that the settlement of America by Europeans was a grand enlargement of individual rights and the pursuit of opportunity, we tend to pay little attention to the ordinary experiences and feelings of the people who made the settlement possible- especially those who did not achieve […]
