It’s time to create an alternative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund—a global bank that prioritizes sustainability, not growth.
2015
Buddhism and Debt
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What resources does Buddhism offer toward Jubilee? To achieve the Buddhist goal of release from karmic debt, we must annul economic debt.
2015
Embracing the Radical Economics of the Bible
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The spirit of the Jubilee laws is clear and relevant: to prevent the emergence of a permanently impoverished underclass.
2015
Power Without the King: The Debt Strike as Credible Threat
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If we want to abolish debt, we’ll have to do it ourselves. If debtors refuse to pay, our debts cease being our problem—they become the bank’s problem!
2015
Transcending Economic Dualities
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Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier. Review by Miki Kashtan.
2015
You Are Not a Loan: Strike Debt and the Emerging Debtors Movement
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Millions of Americans incur debt to pay for basic needs. To escape this trap, we must “come out” as debtors and start experiencing our debts collectively.
Articles
The Jubilee and the Global Economy: Lessons from Leviticus
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Undoubtedly, the present economic order is marred by social and economic injustice among and within nations and by the overexploitation and destruction of natural resources. Scripture is not concerned with designing an economic system, but rather with prescribing how to implement justice and compassion within any given system.
2015
Reimagining Jubilee: A Political Horizon for Our Times
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Economic forms of Jim Crow continue to exist throughout the credit industry today. A modern call for Jubilee would seek to level the racial playing field.
2015
Jubilee and Debt Abolition: An Introduction
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What would it mean to take seriously the Torah’s call for the cancellation of all debts and the equal redistribution of property every fifty years?
2015
Jubilee on Wall Street: Taking the Bull by the Horns
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Jubilee was God’s alternative to empire, to Wall Street, and to the patterns of injustice. Let’s commit wild and joyful acts of Jubilee every day.
2015
Adapting Ancient Ethical Principles in Modern Times
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How might we update the Bible’s call for the periodic redistribution of wealth? Could we use estate taxes to create a trust fund for every child?
2015
Sabbatical Year and Jubilee in Twenty-First-Century America
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A campaign to reinstitute the Sabbatical Year and Jubilee in industrial societies could fundamentally transform the global capitalist system.
Articles
The Demon in Darren Wilson’s Head
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The actions of police officers aren’t supposed to be governed by fear. But Darren Wilson’s were. Wilson’s actions, however, weren’t “his actions,” but rather an outcropping of what theologian Sarah Drummond aptly calls “an epigenetic, cellular memory of loss and its resultant need for a scapegoat.”
Activism
Media Justice Is Social Justice: Why the Comcast-Time Warner Merger Matters
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Why does net neutrality matter? Because we’re treating a lifeline to the American economy and a lifeline for communities that need to organize as if it was just about profit, rather than as the essential human right that it is.
2014
Deepening Disability Justice: Beyond the Level Playing Field
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I was very lucky to be born disabled in 1966, just as the disability rights movement was gaining strength worldwide—I was born into an era of disability activists agitating for recognition that we are human beings like any other, and that we should be treated with respect and dignity. This is a political claim, but it’s also a theological one that has resonance with the fundamental precepts of most religions. As a Quaker, for example, I am taught to look for “that of God in every one,” in the words of George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement. In most cultural contexts and for many centuries, disabled people have struggled for inclusion and survival. Throughout history, many disabled children have died or been left to die.