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Keep Hope Alive! A Liberation Theology Reflection: Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Gospel of Justice The transition of Rev. Jesse Jackson  invites us not merely to remember a man, but to revisit a theology — a living witness to the truth that faith must confront injustice and that God stands with the oppressed. Liberation theology teaches that God is not neutral in the face of suffering. God is found among the marginalized, the overlooked, the imprisoned, and the poor. Rev. Jackson’s life embodied...

They told us to wait. To be patient. To understand that systems take time. But no one ever asks a mother how long a heartbeat can hold its breath. A Mother’s Cry is not noise. It is not hysteria. It is not weakness dressed in grief. It is love standing upright in rooms where power hoped it would kneel. It is truth spoken without permission to systems that learned how to punish before they learned how to listen. We are told justice is complicated. That reform is slow. That progress requires...

For those of us with incarcerated loved ones, the end of the year does not arrive quietly. It announces itself with reflection, reckoning, and remembrance. It signals another year gone by without them—another year of visits measured in minutes, voices heard through phones, and love expressed across distance and steel. Though the world invites us to be jovial about the coming New Year, many of us battle a grief that doesn’t easily lift with fireworks or resolutions. We smile when expected. We...