All in Justice

Enjoying your life is how you let out the light

Enjoying your life is how you let out the light

Garrett Jones
Emotional Health, Justice, Politics

The most responsible thing we can do to show our solidarity with Ukrainians and with every other people group that is undergoing persecution...is to love our kids, to throw birthday parties, to walk our dogs, to tend our gardens, to hug a loved one, to speak words of life, and to show simple acts of kindness to a stranger. Simply put, the way we beat the darkness out there is to cultivate light on the inside, through all the little, faithful things. Folding laundry, changing diapers, taking that online class, putting in extra time at work, taking time off of work to take our kids to a park, all of it—every single bit of normal life—will confound the powers of darkness in the world, to the point of making them transparently silly and laughable…

We Hold the Keys to a United Future

We Hold the Keys to a United Future

Garrett Jones
Justice, Politics, Vision

We are his beloved. We are not a random evolutionary event happening on a lifeless rock floating through emotionally-detached space. No, this planet is alive. The universe is alive. And we are connected to all of it. We are the children of all of it being connected. We are the tip of the flame of a universe on fire. We are the manifestation of all the desires of divinity. We are the crown jewel on the big bang. We are the apple of God's eye. We are what he's been waiting for and desiring since the beginning. We are center-stage in a drama of universe-wide proportions and deep, deep significance.

I'm reckoning with my own white privilege. It's hard.

I'm reckoning with my own white privilege. It's hard.

Garrett Jones
Justice

Privilege is the negative, spoiled, counterfeit version of Favor. Privilege is favor that got put on the shelf and turned stale from disuse. It is the expectation of benefit solely based on position, power, or promise of influence. To put it simply, privilege is favor without courage. It is the opposite of 1 Corinthians 13 Love. Privilege seeks its own, protects itself, dishonors others, delights in evil, and does not rejoice with the truth. Privilege will win at any cost to maintain its own position or power, and do it precisely at the expense of others. For self. Against others.