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Institute for Christian Socialism (The Bias Magazine)
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We claim, promote, and embody the socialism of the Gospel. Home of The Bias Magazine.
https://www.christiansocialism.com/
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Let us imagine and build a faith that truly welcomes, heals, and unites.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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REMINDER: Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19! bit.ly/ICSHOPE
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The stories of Herman Melville and C. L. R. James illuminate how our class, ecological, and spiritual struggles are bound together.

⚓️ Now live! Read on The Bias, one of the premier voices of the Christian left: christiansocialism.com/2025/11/20/t...
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Do we stand with God, or do we stand with our oppressors?

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November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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3️⃣ questions we’re thinking of from our latest interview with Cynthia Moe-Lobeda.

Read on The Bias: christiansocialism.com/2025/11/06/b...
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In a world that tells us to give up, God tells us that hope is resistance.

#ChristianSocialism
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The Gospel invites us to believe there is another way.

#ChristianSocialism #FaithAndJustice #Politics #Socialism #Christianity #Quotes
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Theologian and ICS Advisory Board Member Cynthia Moe-Lobeda names the moral damage that occurs when our daily lives depend on exploitation, calling us to imagine a new way of being.

💭Now live! Read this interview from @crbernasol.bsky.social in The Bias: christiansocialism.com/2025/11/06/b...
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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CALL FOR ART, ESSAYS, CREATIVE WRITING, + MORE!

ICS is excited to announce our very first digital and print magazine. Submit to ISSUE 1: THE RADICAL HOPE by December 19 ➡️ bit.ly/ICSHOPE

#ChristianSocialism #Art #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions #OpenCall #Writers #Poets #TheBias #Hope
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Rev. Washington Gladden was a pastor who led Progressive reform, defended unions, and spoke against racial segregation in the mid-to-late 1800s.

#ChristianSocialism #FaithAndJustice #WashingtonGladden #Socialism #Christianity #Quotes
October 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Solidarity and justice are divine commands. Not optional charity.

#ChristianSocialism
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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ICS is excited to announce our new Managing Director, VENNEIKIA WILLIAMS!

From designing curricula, graphics, abd events to facilitating in-person & virtual trainings on racial, political, and spiritual matters, Venneikia (she/they) is a lifelong learner & instructor.

Sign up to chat: bit.ly/VWICS
September 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s prophetic voice was woven with faith, feminism, and the fight for racial and economic justice.

#ChristianSocialism #FaithAndJustice #PauliMurray #Christianity
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This is the Gospel.

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September 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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This is the Gospel.

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September 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Free healthcare? Call that Christian ethics.

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September 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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This is the Gospel.

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Navy text on white: Do not desire a ruler’s delicacies, for they are deceptive food. Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” a ruler says to you, but his heart is not with you. Proverbs 23:3-7 (ESV)
September 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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All this, centuries before Marx. What might their example say to us about community and economics today? #ChristianSocialism #TheBias
A text-based image that says "MONKS pooled resources, abolished private property, and organized collective labor." The logo for the Institute of Christian Socialism is at the bottom. Sources are listed for the claim. There are two sources: Arvanitidis, P. & Sofia's, C. 2023. 'The Byzantine monastery as a Commons', Revisit de History Industrial, 33 (89): 107-142. Ponzetti, J. 2014. 'Christian monasticism and sustainable communal life', International Journal of Community Diversity, 13 (1): 1-12.
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Now live. Fr. Thomas Massaro reflects on the legacies of Pope Francis.
June 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Joerg Rieger argues that true democracy would not only require political power, but economic power.

Image: Victor Dubreuil, “Safe Money,” c.1898 or later. U.S. National Gallery of Art. Common Domain

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May 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change. Read more here: christiansocialism.com/2025/02/25/a...
The Case for the Politics of Love structures is the power of majorities. Effective political action must therefore learn how to construct and mobilize political majorities with shared concerns. Prophetically, we are compelled to press beyond narrowly conceived identities because love for the common resists the imposition and policing of rigid boundaries. Following this prophetic tradition, West and Söelle help us envision what forms an emancipatory political desire might look like on a mass scale, connected with and yet distinct from the interests engendered by identity. Accordingly, for both, class conflict is central, and their interpretations of Christian faith and the political agency it supports are connected with the interests of the vast majority, the demos as a whole. THE BIAS
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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We are excited to announce that ICS is hiring a Managing Director! The Managing Director is responsible for oversight and orchestration of the administrative, financial, and public facing aspects of ICS. Learn more about the position and apply here: forms.gle/4AY5nYTveCUy...
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February 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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During a time when the right-wing is gaining power and mobilizing racialized fear, Rev. Andrew Wilkes urges us to Remember the lush liberation and romanticism at the center of Black History month. Read more at The Bias: christiansocialism.com/2025/02/11/f...
Fighting for a Fantastic Future by Rev Andrew Wilkes The struggle for justice must also be sweet, beautiful, and romantic, in the politically inspiring sense of that term. The righteous, perceived rightness of a cause is insufficient motivation to stick out the inevitable frustrations, betrayals, misunderstandings, pettiness, and institutional pushback that attend any work for justice, fairness, and the like, in any sector, any era, any country. Perhaps this is part of what Toni Cade Bambara meant when she remarked that it is the duty of the artist to make the revolution irresistible. What I mean is that the work of the next decade requires a usable, beautiful vision of the future. # BIAS
February 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Gary Dorrien’s new memoir is a meditative and unhurried account of the people, ideas, and history that influenced a life of deep scholarship and witness charged with the convictions that Christianity at its best activates a life of radical political commitment. christiansocialism.com/2025/01/27/t...
The Radical Witness of Gary Dorrien's Left-Intellectual LIfe by Matthew McManus
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM