When Our Faith Forgets People

June reflections on scripture from the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.

Illustration by Jocelyn O’Leary

As Christian nationalism continues to plague the United States, I find myself asking the question: Who pays the price when faith separates itself from humanity? History is clear. It is the children. The mothers. The women. The foreigners. The outsiders. The marginalized. 

Who reaps the reward when we reconnect faith to the unlimited compassion of Jesus? All of us. All of us. All of us.

Never in my lifetime has it felt as critical as it feels right now to make Christianity Christ-like again. Critical, as in people are dying. Critical, as in babies are starving. Critical, as in we are losing our very souls.

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