A Hunger For Justice
Reverend Tom Capo
October 5, 2014
We affirm justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. I’m going to ask you the same question I asked last month when we explored “Beloved Community.” What does “affirm” really mean to us, individually and as a congregation? What does “affirm” really look like? Many of you do work in the community, or perhaps in your jobs, to help others, to fight injustice, to educate those who are unaware of the some of the human, animal, and ecological crises our world faces. I know that many of you are yearning, hungry for justice, equity, and compassion in our world.
What does it mean really mean to be “hungry for justice?” Are these just words we bandy about during coffee hour and snack after the service? “Here, have some fair trade chocolate.” “Thanks I am hungry for justice!” Is it a personal question? “I got detention because I was sitting next to the person who was disrupting class. But it wasn’t me! I was just sitting there! It’s totally not fair and I’m going to get my parents to file a complaint! I am hungry for justice!” Or is it a different kind of personal question? “I’ve read the Unitarian Universalist Association’s 2013-2014 Common Read Behind the Kitchen Door, about wage inequality and unfair working conditions in the majority of our nation’s restaurants. I am hungry for justice and I’m going to do something about this.”
