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We need a genuine alternative to social media
Social media isn’t just making us miserable, it is stealing from us. It is long past time we tried to do something about it.
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Could we just not focus on the money this time?
The ethical question Judas offers is so tempting. But what would it be if we didn’t think of it as an honest question? Because we shouldn’t.
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Prudence and the desire to just keep saving
When we read this story and think of waste, we are being seduced, not with a virtuous desire for service, but an unhealthy desire to be right.
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What the wedding at Cana reveals about us
In preparing to preach on the wedding at Cana story, we have several options, but always present is Jesus’s economics.
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Prudence is not as virtuous as generosity
There is a common perception that we be smart with money — and that poverty is evidence of stupidity. The real virtue is generosity.
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Why this is the good news we hate to hear
The good news offered by John the Baptist is a message against exploitation, fraud, and abuse that is normal to the powerful.
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John the Baptist’s economic message—for Advent 3C
The message John the Baptist offers is compelling and liberating—but it is frightening to the rich and powerful because they have more to lose.
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Beyond Loud Giving — hearing the loud critique
In a story, usually read as a matter of faithfulness, we receive a much louder critique of an impoverishing system of inequality.