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We claim, promote, and embody the socialism of the Gospel. Home of The Bias Magazine.
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CALL FOR ART, ESSAYS, CREATIVE WRITING, + MORE!

ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE

#ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope
In a world that tells us to give up, God tells us that hope is resistance.

#ChristianSocialism
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Gospel invites us to believe there is another way.

#ChristianSocialism #FaithAndJustice #Politics #Socialism #Christianity #Quotes
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Theologian and ICS Advisory Board Member Cynthia Moe-Lobeda names the moral damage that occurs when our daily lives depend on exploitation, calling us to imagine a new way of being.

💭Now live! Read this interview from @crbernasol.bsky.social in The Bias: christiansocialism.com/2025/11/06/b...
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
CALL FOR ART, ESSAYS, CREATIVE WRITING, + MORE!

ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE

#ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What does it cost to seek spectacle instead of sustainability? Gabes Torres answers through the lens of therapy and organizing.

🤝🏽 Now live! Read in The Bias: christiansocialism.com/2025/10/20/contemplative-doability-needs-to-be-the-beginning-of-grassroots-organizing/
Contemplative Doability Needs To Be the Beginning of Grassroots Organizing - Institute for Christian Socialism
Mental health practitioner Gabes Torres reflects on the desire for spectacle in social change and the need for grassroots organizing to embody practices of listening, rest, and collective care.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Tomorrow at 7pm ET! Sign up today: bit.ly/VWICS
ICS is excited to announce our new Managing Director, VENNEIKIA WILLIAMS!

From designing curricula, graphics, abd events to facilitating in-person & virtual trainings on racial, political, and spiritual matters, Venneikia (she/they) is a lifelong learner & instructor.

Sign up to chat: bit.ly/VWICS
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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ICS is excited to announce our new Managing Director, VENNEIKIA WILLIAMS!

From designing curricula, graphics, abd events to facilitating in-person & virtual trainings on racial, political, and spiritual matters, Venneikia (she/they) is a lifelong learner & instructor.

Sign up to chat: bit.ly/VWICS
September 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Rev. Washington Gladden was a pastor who led Progressive reform, defended unions, and spoke against racial segregation in the mid-to-late 1800s.

#ChristianSocialism #FaithAndJustice #WashingtonGladden #Socialism #Christianity #Quotes
October 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A New York socialist is campaigning for “people over profit.” The first to do it in 1911? George R. Lunn, a pastor who called socialism “Christianity applied.”

🗳️ Now live! Read in The Bias: christiansocialism.com/2025/10/06/the-municipal-socialism-of-a-local-new-york-state-mayor/
The Municipal Socialism of a Local New York State Mayor - Institute for Christian Socialism
New York’s first socialist mayor, George R. Lunn, sought to put “Christianity applied” into practice at the city level.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Solidarity and justice are divine commands. Not optional charity.

#ChristianSocialism
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
ICS is excited to announce our new Managing Director, VENNEIKIA WILLIAMS!

From designing curricula, graphics, abd events to facilitating in-person & virtual trainings on racial, political, and spiritual matters, Venneikia (she/they) is a lifelong learner & instructor.

Sign up to chat: bit.ly/VWICS
September 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s prophetic voice was woven with faith, feminism, and the fight for racial and economic justice.

#ChristianSocialism #FaithAndJustice #PauliMurray #Christianity
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is the Gospel.

#ChristianSocialism
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Prophetic art doesn’t come from the market. It rises from the margins. Yanan Rahim N. Melo explores how Filipino hip-hop confronts capitalism and fascism.

🎤Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/22/i...
Is Prophetic Art Possible in the Age of Commodification? - Institute for Christian Socialism
Filipino hip-hop albums Kolateral and Walang Panginoon ang Lupa embody prophetic art, confronting fascism, capitalism, and empire.
christiansocialism.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is the Gospel.

#ChristianSocialism
September 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"In a career known for taking enormous swings, Habermas has just produced his most ambitious work yet"

Matt McManus reviews Habermas's 'Also a History of Philosophy: Volume III' for the Institute For Christian Socialism

christiansocialism.com/2025/08/28/i... #philosophy
Is Modern Philosophy Emancipating? Jürgen Habermas Thinks So. - Institute for Christian Socialism
Matt McManus considers Habermas's optimistic vision for modern philosophy in the final volume of "Also a History of Philosophy."
christiansocialism.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Free healthcare? Call that Christian ethics.

#ChristianSocialism #TheBias #Christianity
September 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is the Gospel.

#ChristianSocialism
September 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For-profit immigrant camps. Sanctuary churches under threat. Deportations without trial. Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf makes the case: now is the time for people of faith to resist.

📖 Now live! Read in The Bias Magazine, a premier voice of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/09/06/t...
The Moral Case for the Sanctuary Movement - Institute for Christian Socialism
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf confronts Trump’s deportation regime by embracing the sanctuary movement as a faithful stand against state violence and moral injury.
christiansocialism.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
All this, centuries before Marx. What might their example say to us about community and economics today? #ChristianSocialism #TheBias
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Now live! Jürgen Habermas insists philosophy still holds emancipatory power. McManus’ review shows why—through Hume, Kant, Marx & Kierkegaard—at a time when Christian nationalism looms.

👉🏽 Read in The Bias, a premiere voice of the Christian Left: christiansocialism.com/2025/08/28/i...
Is Modern Philosophy Emancipating? Jürgen Habermas Thinks So. - Institute for Christian Socialism
Matt McManus considers Habermas's optimistic vision for modern philosophy in the final volume of "Also a History of Philosophy."
christiansocialism.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Now live! Roberto Che Espinoza on how churches can resist the anti-LGBTQ+ policies of the Trump administration.

christiansocialism.com/2025/08/06/e...
Embodying a Sanctuary Imagination - Institute for Christian Socialism
Embodying a sanctuary imagination means being accountable to those impacted by the anti-LGBTQ+ agenda of the Trump regime.
christiansocialism.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine)
Excited to review this for @smashmammon.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine)
I liked Soelle’s “Suffering” a lot, always glad to see it come up again.
July 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM