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Willie Dwayne Francois III
Willie Dwayne Francois III is senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church of Pleasantville, New Jersey, and assistant professor of liberation theology at New York Theological Seminary.
Practicing abolitionist spirituality
What are we willing to sacrifice for racial justice?
God’s infrastructure plan (Luke 3:1-6)
Advent is also about our own coming and going, the ways we embody the reconstructive ways of the Lord.
God’s womb of compassion (Psalm 25:1-10; Luke 21:25-36)
Advent must respond in some consequential way to the widening uncertainty of the living of our days.
December 5, Advent 2C (Luke 3:1-6)
To be wild is to be free, unbought and unbossed by the structures of power.
November 28, Advent 1C (Luke 21:25-36)
What if Jesus is snatching us out of our desire for another world?
Wearing down structural evil with the ministry of erosion
During the pandemic, our church’s justice work has gone online.
A visit to the border with the New Sanctuary Coalition
In Tijuana, we witnessed the resilience and humanity of the migrant movement.
Justice for our children is next (Mark 5:21-43)
Jairus knows the weight of justice delayed as justice denied. But he keeps moving.
Conversations with chaos (Mark 4:35-41)
The wind and water operate at a guttural level within these fishermen disciples.
July 1, Ordinary 13B (Mark 5:21-43)
The woman's presence in a crowd is an act of civil disobedience.
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June 24, Ordinary 12B (Mark 4:35-41)
What do we miss when we seclude ourselves on safe shores of sameness?
The courage to climb a tree (Luke 19:1–10)
Sometimes you have to struggle to a new height, away from the crowded ground level, to gain new vision.
October 30, 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time: Luke 19:1-10
Zacchaeus's daily life as a tax collector was reduced to the symptoms of his society's sickness.
October 23, 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22; Luke 18:9-14
Nations as well as individuals need to look in the moral mirror in order to stop deceiving ourselves.