Category: Systemic
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Flipping the Tables: What Would Jesus Do About Systemic Injustice?
Would Jesus stay home and pray? Faith Beyond Politics: The Gospel’s Call to Justice In these contentious days, we might be tempted to reduce Christianity merely to a political label—“conservative,” “progressive,” “left,” or “right,” but real Christianity goes beyond political labels. As theologian Miroslav Volf (2011) helps us remember, “Christian faith is not a tool…
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From Institutional Betrayal to Academic Resilience: A Testimony of Systemic Abuse and the Moral Urgency of Foster Care Reform
I didn’t “age out” of foster care—I was thrown out. No transition plan. No suitcase. Not even my clothing. This personal narrative is part of a body of survivor-informed work exploring system-level failings in the U.S. foster care system. It recounts the author’s experience as a foster care youth, the overlapping trauma of sexual abuse…