Where Shalom is Needed Most

Shalom is tested best on society’s margins and is exposed by how the disempowered are treated. When you find an enormous discrepancy between the opportunities for the rich and the poor or the white and the black or men and women, shalom is AWOL.

Systemic injustice is what someone called “violence in slow motion.” Jesus’ new society challenges the unjust structure, lifts up the oppressed, quells the violence, and restores shalom.

[An excerpt from: WHAT ON EARTH? Considering the Social Implications of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount by Barney Wiget]