One factor leading to moral inertia in the face of systemic injustice on the part of people privileged by it is their failure to "see" it, and to acknowledge their implication in it. This is a failure to recognize the structural links between the privilege of a few and the suffering of the many.

Concentrated unaccountable economic power threatens the common good.

We are to receive this Love, trust it, and then embody it into the world.

When structural violence begins to break into public awareness, those responsible for it briskly and effectively deflect the dawning awareness onto more sensational or easily understood acts of direct violence.

How are we to become people who bring into public life the values we treasure in our interpersonal relationships?

... the richest tenth of the worlds' adults owned 85 percent of global assets in the year 2000. The poorest half, in contrast, owned barely 1 percent. ... Pause for a moment, to resist letting those numbers drift by unconsidered.

Injustice is known most fully and described most clearly by those who suffer from it. Ethics, therefore, is to draw upon the wisdom, knowledge, and experience of people and places on the underside of power and privilege.

... the cultivation of body dissatisfaction is so lucrative that the misguidance continues.

Impervious adherence to economically exploitative lifeways stems in part from a historical penchant for misperceiving social problems as individuals' problems.

Theology is the age-old effort to make sense of our many stories in light of God's presence and power in, with, and for this good creation.