The Social Jesus Podcast

Justice Lessons from the Gospel of John

Episode Summary

John 14:1-14 Our imagery this week offers a vision of radical belonging. In a world structured by exclusion, where systems determine who is in and who is out, this imagery disrupts scarcity and hierarchy. There is room, not just for some but for many. Jesus says, “Many rooms.” For Jesus followers committed to justice, this becomes a theological grounding for inclusion: immigrants, LGBTQ people, the poor, the marginalized, and those historically pushed to the edges are not afterthoughts in the Divine household. They are already accounted for. The work of justice, then, is not creating belonging from scratch, but aligning our communities with a reality of belonging that already exists in the heart and “house” of the Divine.