Herb Montgomery | May 13, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. "You can’t love another" without desiring that those whom you love have what they need to thrive, and also doing…
Herb Montgomery | January 22, 2021 “This is the intrinsic reason why our collective thriving depends on raising up some in society while those who have gained too much power, privilege, property, or profit must fall back down. Ancient societies…
Herb Montgomery | February 28, 2020 “Change can scare those benefitting from the present system no matter how unjust that system may be for others. Sadly the moderates in any given society typically side with the establishment, not with those…
Herb Montgomery | January 31, 2020 “This I believe is the genius of the ethic of enemy love that Jesus and many others in history have taught. Rightly understood, it enables one to stand up to one’s enemies while not…
by Herb Montgomery | January 24, 2020 “I want to be careful with this ethic of enemy love. First, this ethic does not mean that we should expect reconciliation without change or reparations from our enemies . . . To…
Equality, Equity and Jesus’ Preferential Option for the Marginalized by Herb Montgomery | January 17, 2020 "Some may cry unfair when others receive more, yet if this 'more than' is based on what they need is more than what others…
Herb Montgomery | April 5, 2019 Photo by Melany Rochester on Unsplash “Where else do you see institutions threatened by the voice of prophets? We may not call them prophets in every institution, yet the punishment of prophets is a universal dynamic. Whenever…
Herb Montgomery | January 4, 2019 "Something for us shifted because of this meeting. As the Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes so eloquently states in Journey to Liberation, 'When you start with an understanding that God loves everyone, justice isn’t very…