ESA's Blog: Love Justice, Do Mercy
When Business Does Good
By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun Yes, businesses can do good…and I’m as surprised by this as you are When my soon-to-be-husband, Ned, told me that he was applying to business school, I was horrified. We had...
Let It Die: Why More Churches Should Embrace Institutional Death
By Chanequa Walker-Barnes “No one with a brain really believes in religion,” the man declared. It was an odd way to respond to my revelation that I was a seminary professor. I had never...
Living With Terror
By Elrena Evans “Three babies and two adults were injured after being stabbed in a private day care facility in Queens early Friday, officials said.” ~ New York Post, 9/21/2018 “An employee…fatally shot three...
Principled Pluralism Creates Space for All
By Shapri LoMaglio When asked whether Jews should pay taxes to the Roman government that was ruling over them, Jesus’ deft response in Matthew 22:21 to “give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and...
Addressing Difference in a Divided Nation
If you want to appeal to people, you need to speak to their concerns—not yours. By Jonathan Haidt Note: Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, examining...
Cheap Thrills: Why Do We Choose Consumerism Over Community?
By Allison Duncan On a drive to visit my family, a billboard for a jeweler showed me a picture of a diamond ring with a speech bubble that said, “It’s time you told your...
Examining Greed and Idolatry: Practicing the King’s Economy
By Michael Rhodes, Robby Holt, and Brian Fikkert From Genesis to Revelation, we see that one of our Creator King’s primary qualities is his lavish generosity. We are made in the image of this generous King,...
Ron Sider Reflects on 45 Years of Evangelical Social Action
By Andre Henry At the time, the thought of dozens of evangelicals, young and old, convening to meet and talk about economic injustice, racism, gender equality, and other social justice issues was unheard of....
Moving Past Fear Through Story: A Review of “Disruptive Witness”
By Amanda Martinez Beck A decade ago, I was pursuing my master’s degree at Baylor University, researching the idea of hospitality as social justice in Latin American short story. The stories I read challenged...
Undoing Domination
By Michael Anthony Howard There are about 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone. It is amazing when you think about it. The Milky Way isn’t even very big. Every star has an approximate...
