Progressive/Social Justice LensLines™

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.

If 1 Timothy 2:1-7 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.

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

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

16:1-13 invites us to practice mercy with hands, budgets, and policies—not just feelings—today, not someday.

1:1-4; 2:1-4 insists that worship without justice is noise, not devotion—today, not someday.

Luke 12:13-21, compassion isn’t optional—it’s the shape of faithful discipleship—today, not someday.

18:1-11 invites us to practice mercy with hands, budgets, and policies—not just feelings—today, not someday.

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

1 Timothy 1:12-17 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

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

In Galatians 5:1, 13-25, compassion isn’t optional—it’s the shape of faithful discipleship—today, not someday.

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

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

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

Jeremiah 31:27-34, love becomes public: the kingdom confronts systems that crush the vulnerable—today, not someday.

confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.

81:1, 10-16 names what we avoid: neutrality in injustice is still a choice—today, not someday.

80:1-2, 8-19 is inconvenient on purpose—God interrupts comfort to liberate the oppressed—today, not someday.

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

2 Timothy 2:8-15 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

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