Progressive/Social Justice LensLines™

1 Timothy 2:1-7 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

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

11:1-13 makes room for the wounded: God sees the overlooked and calls the Church to solidarity.

confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.

If Luke 13:1-9 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

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

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

Luke 17:5-10 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

If Psalm 63:1-8 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.

If Ephesians 3:1-12 threatens your “normal,” ask who your normal has been hurting—today, not someday.

2:23-32 makes room for the wounded: God sees the overlooked and calls the Church to solidarity.

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

confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.

50:1-8, 22-23 asks who benefits and who bleeds; God’s good news always has a direction—toward the marginalized.

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

12:18-29 is inconvenient on purpose—God interrupts comfort to liberate the oppressed—today, not someday.

13:1-8, 15-16 names what we avoid: neutrality in injustice is still a choice—today, not someday.

In Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28, love becomes public: the kingdom confronts systems that crush the vulnerable.

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

1:1-4; 2:1-4 is inconvenient on purpose—God interrupts comfort to liberate the oppressed—today, not someday.

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

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

reminds weary hearts that God is near and grace meets us here.