The "Right Way" as a Righteous Vocabulary A few days ago, I wrote about the story we tell when we're afraid — the one that points at immigrants as the cause of our scarcity rather than at the systems that created it — and about Jesus's refusal, in Matthew 20, to accept empire's logic of domination: "Not so among you." I want to pick that thread back up here, because there's a phrase I hear constantly in these conversations that deserves a closer look. "I don't have a problem

Who the Story Asks Us to Blame I'm sitting with two things today. Every summer, from June through September, my new church becomes a food bank site for our neighbors on the East Side of Clark County. We see a wide range of people — different ages, different immigration statuses, different housing situations. No one is turned away. There's never a lot on the tables, and yet, somehow, there is always enough for everyone who walks through the parking lot. We say our welcoming st

As the government shutdown continues, many families who rely on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) are bracing for the worst: their benefits are being paused. For millions of households across the country, this means no money for groceries next week—and no clear idea of when help will come again.