Rivers or Trickles of Justice

Rivers or Trickles of Justice

In the light of the unjust mass incarceration of young black and Hispanic males and the massive racial wealth gap in America, we need oceans of justice, rivers of fairness (Amos 5:24, The Message), not just trickles of justice or fragments of justice.  For the most part, the American church is either silent about oppression or far too often a participant in systems of oppression, rarely a vigorous and active doer of comprehensive Jubilee justice.

With a few exceptions such as CCDA, Sojourners and IJM, most of the American church fits the James 2 (The Message) description "God-talk [about justice] without God-acts is outrageous nonsense."

For the direct opposite of biblical justice, read Allan Bean's article "How corporate Evangelicalism elected a president."  Far too much of American evangelicalism has been a reflection of Mississippi evangelicalism---justification without justice.