Carrying on the Work of Love and Justice

The Social Jesus Podcast · May 29, 2025 · 18m

Luke 24:44-53 “Repentance for the forgiveness of sins that they taught had a quality that began with John the Baptist in Luke 3. John’s repentance was not for personal, private, individual sins. John called his listeners to a repentance for community sins, social and political choices, that were not only making the most marginalized vulnerable to harm, but also being the conduits of that harm as well. The elite, the powerful, propertied, and privileged, had become complicit with the Roman empire's exploitation and extraction of the masses in Galilee, Samaria, and Judea. John then came…