Why does God seem to "throw some shade" to the Israelites, a barbed comment that reminds them that they're not so special? Perhaps it is because we all have a tendency to think highly of ourselves, and we forget who we were.

We pause to reflect on our "first principles," how the Gospel Justice work that we do, the study of our historical scriptures, and the faith of Jesus are all one and the same. And, why it matters.

A conversational Q&R interview with some live questions from the audience.

Author, historian, and theologian, Jemar Tisby shares on the colors of compromise from his book with the same title.

Pastor Paul Bains is the Senior Pastor of Saint Samuel Church in East Palo Alto and the Co-Founder and President of Project WeHOPE whose mission is to help people become healthy, employed and housed using innovative solutions.

Our guest, John Liotti from Able Works (able.is) shares candidly and prophetically the dynamics of his faith and development work.

The first of three conversational interviews with leaders in our local community ministering in Silicon Valley economic realities.

Lauren shares on "The Parable of the Vineyard Workers," and explains how the Kingdom of Heaven is about justice, a radical message in Jesus's day and our own, when most of us want fairness.

Jesus uses a metaphor in Matthew 6 that may be foreign to many of us. Having a "good" or "healthy" eye represents an underlying ethic of seeing one another, so that we can be generous and lavish in our economic behavior. Different from the commonly known Matthew Effect, that the more someone has the greater their advantage, this principle proposes a way of governing our economic selves by restoring our proper relationship with each other.

An Introduction to our series, "Jesus Economics," providing some historical and contextual background into why this is important, and the place economics has in the faith and Way of Jesus.