On February 5th, I had the opportunity to lead a delegation in support of cafeteria workers who are asking to be able to cook real foods again. We delivered 1,600 pledges signed by community members to Sodexo, a multinational corporation that contracts dining at Howard University.

With rising food...

"To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. The point is, when we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, is is a sacrament; when we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration...in such desecration, we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral...

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." -- Arundhati Roy

Vegetables. Who could have imagined an economy in which gentle...

Micah Bales asked a deep question. He suggests that the wealth in property we've inherited is hindering our work for social justice. He talks provocatively (as a spiritual challenge, he clarifies) about "burning the meetinghouse." He asks,...

At the Wild Goose Festival, I was humbled to be among justice-seeking Christians seeking to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.

I see a deep connection between the personal practice of simple living and activism for social change. While I struggle to...

My generation is a practical generation, and I am challenged by my faith to be a practical person. Don't get me wrong: I love all verbal and theological things: story, theology, politics and history, perhaps even inordinately.

But I believe in places. I believe that relationships, rooted in love, transform...

When I am faced with dishonesty and fraud on a systemic scale, I ask my questions to God. But I am continually directed back to humanity itself to find the origins of injustice. So what can we do to end injustice?

The Washington Post reported on the massive falsification...

Oh Lord, save your servant who trusts in you.

--Psalm 86

A prayer lifts up from the city, like the smoke of incense. A single prayer, in the myriad of others, a strand of smoke amidst a great burning.

Oh Lord, why do you stand far off? Why...

Isaiah 58:3-24
"Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with...

How does a Christian live in a power-mad world? A world that, from the perspective of the Beatitudes, is upside down. A world where the poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer? Where nature herself strains at her bonds: straining for release from the carbon blanket that...

The occupation is like Jesus' parable, where a king invites all of his privileged, first-tier guests to the wedding. But nobody came. So the king takes the invitation out to the streets, inviting all who would come, the good, the bad, the homeless, and those with homes. And they came.