First Presbyterian Church Of San Anselmo

Luke 16:1-13: The Parable of the Unjust Steward is confusing, but leaves no doubt that the rich owner, who has exploited the peasants through usury, is not the good guy.  In the Luke’s context, if you were rich, it meant you exploited others to get that way.  On the one hand, we might reasonably say that being rich isn’t bad, after all.  It’s exploitation that’s bad.  But it's very easy to ignore the ways our economic system and structures exploit people, and the planet God created.  What would Jesus do about climate disruption?  Luke’s Jesus consistently speaks up for the poor and marginalized.  He consistently calls the wealthy on the carpet.  "You cannot serve both God and Mammon," says Jesus.  So what would Jesus do about climate disruption?  Most importantly, what Jesus does in the Gospels is invite people to change the world by disbelieving, by no longer believing in the stories that we currently allow to shape our lives, the stories that end up destroying people and the planet.  Stories