Liberation Theology
@liberationtheology.bsky.social
Liberation theology is a movement within various religious traditions that emphasizes the importance of social justice and the rights of the poor and oppressed. It teaches that faith should actively address and transform social inequality.
Today writers such as Rev. Adam Russell Taylor (@revadamtaylor.bsky.social), Mitchell Atencio (@mitchellatencio.com), and Da’Shawn Mosley continue Sojourners’ long project: reporting on poverty, peace, and dignity through a justice-centered faith lens.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Today writers such as Rev. Adam Russell Taylor (@revadamtaylor.bsky.social), Mitchell Atencio (@mitchellatencio.com), and Da’Shawn Mosley continue Sojourners’ long project: reporting on poverty, peace, and dignity through a justice-centered faith lens.
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Sojourners' immigration coverage elevates stories of undocumented families and churches practicing sanctuary. Environmental work by contributors like Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) has linked Christian ethics with climate action and Indigenous-led land protection.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sojourners' immigration coverage elevates stories of undocumented families and churches practicing sanctuary. Environmental work by contributors like Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) has linked Christian ethics with climate action and Indigenous-led land protection.
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In the 1990s, writers highlighted Christian churches addressing poverty—housing, hunger, neighborhood renewal—rooted in grassroots community efforts.
In the 2000s, journalists like Duane Shank and Jeannie Choi brought faith-and-public-life conversations online.
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In the 2000s, journalists like Duane Shank and Jeannie Choi brought faith-and-public-life conversations online.
#socialjusticemedia
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
In the 1990s, writers highlighted Christian churches addressing poverty—housing, hunger, neighborhood renewal—rooted in grassroots community efforts.
In the 2000s, journalists like Duane Shank and Jeannie Choi brought faith-and-public-life conversations online.
#socialjusticemedia
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In the 2000s, journalists like Duane Shank and Jeannie Choi brought faith-and-public-life conversations online.
#socialjusticemedia
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Sojourners’ Christian racial-justice work drew on voices like Lisa Sharon Harper (@lisasharper.bsky.social), Vincent Harding, and Rose Marie Berger (@rmberger.bsky.social), who wrote about civil rights legacies, policing, and global anti-racism struggles.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sojourners’ Christian racial-justice work drew on voices like Lisa Sharon Harper (@lisasharper.bsky.social), Vincent Harding, and Rose Marie Berger (@rmberger.bsky.social), who wrote about civil rights legacies, policing, and global anti-racism struggles.
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Writers like Joyce Hollyday and Danny Duncan Collum helped shape Sojourners’ 1970s–80s voice, connecting discipleship with nonviolence, community life, and advocacy for the poor.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Writers like Joyce Hollyday and Danny Duncan Collum helped shape Sojourners’ 1970s–80s voice, connecting discipleship with nonviolence, community life, and advocacy for the poor.
#socialjusticemedia
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Early Sojourners issues—edited by Jim Wallis (@revjimwallis.bsky.social), Wes Granberg-Michaelson, and others—tackled racism, the Vietnam War, and inequality, arguing that Christian faith belonged in movements for justice.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Early Sojourners issues—edited by Jim Wallis (@revjimwallis.bsky.social), Wes Granberg-Michaelson, and others—tackled racism, the Vietnam War, and inequality, arguing that Christian faith belonged in movements for justice.
#socialjusticemedia
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Sojourners magazine (@sojo.net) began in the early 1970s as a small Christian community focused on justice, peace, and anti-poverty activism. From the start, it used journalism -- then through the "Post American" -- to challenge churches to take social issues seriously.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Sojourners magazine (@sojo.net) began in the early 1970s as a small Christian community focused on justice, peace, and anti-poverty activism. From the start, it used journalism -- then through the "Post American" -- to challenge churches to take social issues seriously.
#socialjusticemedia
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Penny Lernoux died in October 1989, but her work still feels current. As debates continue over faith and justice, she reminds us that liberation theology is a lived commitment to the poor—not just an idea.
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Penny Lernoux died in October 1989, but her work still feels current. As debates continue over faith and justice, she reminds us that liberation theology is a lived commitment to the poor—not just an idea.
Lernoux spotlighted how women—especially nuns—drove much of liberation theology’s grassroots work. She chronicled their leadership even when Church structures resisted it.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Lernoux spotlighted how women—especially nuns—drove much of liberation theology’s grassroots work. She chronicled their leadership even when Church structures resisted it.
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Penny Lernoux's book People of God (1989) mapped global Catholic activism from the bottom up—religious orders, movements, and communities pushing the Church toward justice.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Penny Lernoux's book People of God (1989) mapped global Catholic activism from the bottom up—religious orders, movements, and communities pushing the Church toward justice.
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Lernoux highlighted Óscar Romero early on. His 1980 assassination showed the deadly risk clergy faced when they stood with the oppressed. Lernoux helped bring his story to global attention.
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Lernoux highlighted Óscar Romero early on. His 1980 assassination showed the deadly risk clergy faced when they stood with the oppressed. Lernoux helped bring his story to global attention.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Lernoux highlighted Óscar Romero early on. His 1980 assassination showed the deadly risk clergy faced when they stood with the oppressed. Lernoux helped bring his story to global attention.
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#pennylernoux
Lernoux highlighted Óscar Romero early on. His 1980 assassination showed the deadly risk clergy faced when they stood with the oppressed. Lernoux helped bring his story to global attention.
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#pennylernoux
A key turning point: witnessing repression in Brazil, Chile & Argentina. Lernoux saw people jailed, tortured, or killed for seeking justice. That urgency shaped everything that Penny Lernoux later wrote.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A key turning point: witnessing repression in Brazil, Chile & Argentina. Lernoux saw people jailed, tortured, or killed for seeking justice. That urgency shaped everything that Penny Lernoux later wrote.
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#pennylernoux
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Lernoux's book Cry of the People (1977) revealed how the Vatican, corporations, and U.S.-backed regimes shaped Latin America—and how liberation theology rose from grassroots struggle, not theory.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Lernoux's book Cry of the People (1977) revealed how the Vatican, corporations, and U.S.-backed regimes shaped Latin America—and how liberation theology rose from grassroots struggle, not theory.
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#pennylernoux
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Journalist Penny Lernoux exposed how Latin America’s poor lived under dictatorship, corporate power, and U.S. policy. Few writers matched her courage or clarity in documenting faith-driven resistance.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Journalist Penny Lernoux exposed how Latin America’s poor lived under dictatorship, corporate power, and U.S. policy. Few writers matched her courage or clarity in documenting faith-driven resistance.
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#pennylernoux
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Meet our new superhero, Captain Antifa.
She is bold, patriotic, and she can fly. She protects American neighborhoods from immoral racists and fascists.
She is bold, patriotic, and she can fly. She protects American neighborhoods from immoral racists and fascists.
October 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Meet our new superhero, Captain Antifa.
She is bold, patriotic, and she can fly. She protects American neighborhoods from immoral racists and fascists.
She is bold, patriotic, and she can fly. She protects American neighborhoods from immoral racists and fascists.
MAGA have become the folks who hate Cuban American immigrants.
Imagine hating "I Love Lucy."
Imagine hating "I Love Lucy."
August 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
MAGA have become the folks who hate Cuban American immigrants.
Imagine hating "I Love Lucy."
Imagine hating "I Love Lucy."
The attached chapter introduction provides the context. In short, your quote was not Gustavo Gutiérrez’s own theological claim, but rather part of his analysis and critique of the “Preparatory Document” (PD) written before the 1979 Puebla Conference of Latin American bishops.
August 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The attached chapter introduction provides the context. In short, your quote was not Gustavo Gutiérrez’s own theological claim, but rather part of his analysis and critique of the “Preparatory Document” (PD) written before the 1979 Puebla Conference of Latin American bishops.
You keep demonstrating poor reading comprehension -- willful misinterpretation of others. Here are the pages that you cite.
![What is being underlined is that God is a real person, definitely different from the world he transcends." What this is seeking to express is obvious, but the way of doing it seems cold and distant, using theological terms that lack both vitality and biblical content. The PD repeatedly does this; its polemical preoccupation with orthodox language removes it from the concrete experience of the Christian communities of Latin America, who have a more than verbal instinct for orthodoxy.
The notion of the providential God, which no doubt expresses some of the aspects of popular faith in God's love, is rigidly limited in the PD to the concerns of Western civilization. This both hardens and devalues the notion for Latin Americans, placing it within a discussion of the crisis of the West.
The document, with its marked preference for discussing ideologies, says of this crisis:
(It] takes hold at the roots, on the ideological level. At the basis of many Western ways of thought-be they called rationalism, liberalism, agnosticism, or a variety of one of their forms—we find secularism as a common denominator and as the spirit that impregnates modern cul-ture. This is an important point that, in the process of industrialization and urban growth described above, deserves our attention.
Such secularism, the PD goes on, 'is equivalent to the project of organizing human life and history on the basis of the principle of pure immanence." Faith in the providential God is excluded from such an outlook. But in doing this the West is negating itself as a culture:
Faith in the revelation of the providential God is the basis on which Western culture has built itself. It should not be surprising that throughout history we have gone over, again and again, arguments that endeavored to make a closer intellectual synthesis concerning the problems of the relationship between reason and faith, theology and philos-ophy, providence and human freedom, grace and free will. ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ilirpnbxeh2yn5gw4qytpnhl/bafkreigj3m3bp25vaw4pt7ojugkgzs4yd3iivgjpxj4vtuaj35qbjgu2pi@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
You keep demonstrating poor reading comprehension -- willful misinterpretation of others. Here are the pages that you cite.
Except in cases of welcome sarcasm :-)
... anyone who mopes and whines about radical leftists is usually an extreme reactionary. And people who complain about the radical right should, maybe, look up "radical."
Or better yet, let's stop using "left" and "right" -- they're petrified stereotypes.
... anyone who mopes and whines about radical leftists is usually an extreme reactionary. And people who complain about the radical right should, maybe, look up "radical."
Or better yet, let's stop using "left" and "right" -- they're petrified stereotypes.
July 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Except in cases of welcome sarcasm :-)
... anyone who mopes and whines about radical leftists is usually an extreme reactionary. And people who complain about the radical right should, maybe, look up "radical."
Or better yet, let's stop using "left" and "right" -- they're petrified stereotypes.
... anyone who mopes and whines about radical leftists is usually an extreme reactionary. And people who complain about the radical right should, maybe, look up "radical."
Or better yet, let's stop using "left" and "right" -- they're petrified stereotypes.
June 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Memory and Liberation: A conference in honor of the late Gustavo Gutierrez
January 25
Grassroots collectives have organized to offer an act of memory and liberation in honor of theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, initiator of Liberation Theology.
January 25
Grassroots collectives have organized to offer an act of memory and liberation in honor of theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, initiator of Liberation Theology.
January 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Memory and Liberation: A conference in honor of the late Gustavo Gutierrez
January 25
Grassroots collectives have organized to offer an act of memory and liberation in honor of theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, initiator of Liberation Theology.
January 25
Grassroots collectives have organized to offer an act of memory and liberation in honor of theologian Gustavo Gutierrez, initiator of Liberation Theology.
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“And maybe, and only maybe then, the world will start to take us seriously and believing in our Bible."
- Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac
“And maybe, and only maybe then, the world will start to take us seriously and believing in our Bible."
- Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac
November 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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“And maybe, and only maybe then, the world will start to take us seriously and believing in our Bible."
- Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac
“And maybe, and only maybe then, the world will start to take us seriously and believing in our Bible."
- Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac