Exploring “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat”
Exploring “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” Disclaimer: This blog is a bit longer than those typically posted, approximately 10-15 minutes. Feel free to skim parts that feel a bit overwhelming. However, please realize that the policies implemented based...
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
Guest Author: Mary Y on Living Justly Christians often know that they are called to engage in social issues affecting our world, to be “in the world but not of it” and to impact society for human flourishing in God’s name. However, often what stops us isn’t an...
Eliminating hurry & the year without shopping
I recently finished reading The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer (highly recommend). The challenging insights in his chapter on simplicity in particular had me thinking about the year I gave up shopping (no non-essential purchases for 12 months). Below...
Is Christian minimalism a thing?
A year ago, I bought into the fad and did the Mari Kondo thing. After two years of living in the same apartment but not having fully unpacked from my last move, my life and living space had become full of clutter. Too many things I didn’t need, and no idea where to...
A Rich Fool? A Prudent Investor?
In our work at Boston Faith & Justice we often focus on how Christians are called to live simply, to eschew wealth and resist the extractive economy and culture of which we are a part. In 2024 as we examine the realities and causes of poverty this seems like an...
How much is enough? Reflections on Giving Generously.
How much is enough? Stop and think about that for a second. How much is enough? “Enough of what?” you may wonder. Good question. Of course it depends on what you need and don’t have (see Maslow’s hierarchy of needs). Or perhaps, think you need. But for the purpose...
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger – A Reflection
My Tuesdays nights in April were spent on Zoom with a group of 15 or so friends, new and old, considering Ron Sider’s – Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger (RCAoH). It is a book I have read and re-read several times over the last 25 years - the first version came out...
Poverty Focus: Learning Together
With plenty of thought and prayer at the end of 2023 the board and staff of Boston Faith & Justice decided we would focus on poverty in 2024. Alongside our community we wanted to learn more about the lived reality of poverty as well as the structures and systems...
Poverty – A Line in the Sand
The vast majority of Americas have heard of poverty. It is the state of poor people or perhaps even it is or was us or me. The line of who is in poverty and who isn’t often exists unconsciously in our minds. Wherever that division is, we classify people accordingly....
Do you thirst? If so, for what reasons?
During the final moments of Jesus life, he hung dying on the cross in the scorching sun, beaten, abused, tortured, and thirsty. Not just with a Crown of Thorns adorned on his head, but metal nails fastening his hands and feet to the cross in which he was forced to...