“Justice” Articles

Lamar’s music is a battlefield of competing theologies embedded in the dissonance of lived experience.

Both the Western and Star Wars imagine a world where character must be forged and not assumed, where goodness is real, but never cheap.

A recent documentary opens up an opportunity to see these brothers as something more complex and worthy of compassion. 

Harry’s rough-around-the-edges compassion emerges over the course of these films: sometimes, to protect the sheep, the shepherd must get down and dirty with the wolves.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is about a boy becoming a man — and a just one at that.

Squid Game shows us the value of sacrificial, compassionate action to our own life of faith, especially within a competitive, late capitalist society.

Erin and Hannah invite Adam Gustine to help us learn how to show up in our communities in ways that expand the common good.

As believers, while we acknowledge the reality and transcendence of divine law, we also recognize its shortcomings—it cannot make us righteous—and its supersession by mercy.

The fight for Black lives is more important than money, and the players choosing to boycott for the first time in the league’s history is proof of that. 

Or perhaps it would be better stated that Smallville explores how Clark Kent’s heroism isn’t in how he uses his powers, but in how he has to learn to lay his powers aside—over and over again.

If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.

Athletes shouldn’t be burdened with becoming our culture’s activist leaders.

Frustration and anger are natural when your whole world is threatened. Erin and Hannah discuss blame and justice in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unlike abuse, love does not excuse or minimize wrongdoing.

We’ve only partially enjoyed the truest sense of American independence and freedom as long as we support or remain apathetic to the indifference of a system that is insistent on overlooking past wrongs.

Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give reminds us to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.