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Thea JacksonWe have been studying Marcus Borg here, and Marcus Borg says the church does a good job visiting. We visit the sick, we feed the hungry, they look after the homeless, etc.
What we don’t do well is attack the systems that cause the poverty, and illness, and the various maladies in society.
The only way we can really do a job of attacking the system is to develop some kind of critical mass. So it’s really exciting to see the presbytery act as a vehicle for involving so many congregations, focusing on one issue that needs it so desperately.
Our prison system, as one of the superintendents told me, is not just. But she said, if it is to ever become just, the leadership has to come from the religious community. And so it feels like a message of hope to know that presbytery is there with this kind of priority, with this kind of demonstration of an interest in seeing that a system can become more just.
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