Progressive/Social Justice LensLines™

In Hebrews 12:18-29, compassion isn’t optional—it’s the shape of faithful discipleship—today, not someday.

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

makes room for the wounded: God sees the overlooked and calls the Church to solidarity.

: Through the margins, it demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.

invites us to practice mercy with hands, budgets, and policies—not just feelings.

18:1-11 asks who benefits and who bleeds; God’s good news always has a direction—toward the marginalized.

Psalm 71:1-6 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

asks who benefits and who bleeds; God’s good news always has a direction—toward the marginalized.

66:1-12 asks who benefits and who bleeds; God’s good news always has a direction—toward the marginalized.

Timothy 1:1-14 invites us to practice mercy with hands, budgets, and policies—not just feelings.

: Through the margins, it demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.

: Through the margins, it meets us gently—demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.

If Acts 2:1-31 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

is inconvenient on purpose—God interrupts comfort to liberate the oppressed—today, not someday.

In Psalm 52, compassion isn’t optional—it’s the shape of faithful discipleship—today, not someday.

names what we avoid: neutrality in injustice is still a choice—today, not someday.

Timothy 3:14-4:5 asks who benefits and who bleeds; God’s good news always has a direction—toward the marginalized.

In Luke 13:1-9, compassion isn’t optional—it’s the shape of faithful discipleship—today, not someday.

In Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4, compassion isn’t optional—it’s the shape of faithful discipleship—today, not someday.

calls us to faithful obedience rooted in God's enduring truth and mercy.

2:23-32 is inconvenient on purpose—God interrupts comfort to liberate the oppressed—today, not someday.

: Through the margins, it doesn’t flatter us—demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.

: Through the margins, it demands a faith that repairs harm and includes the excluded.

insists that worship without justice is noise, not devotion—today, not someday.