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I am for goodness.
That's why, as a theologian, I cannot be silent in the face of the evil which grips too much of our society and is expanded and entrenched by legislative, judicial, and religious collusion in the "dirty rotten system" (Dorothy Day)...a system which publicly voices its intent to undermine democracy, complete with a 900-page playbook (Project 2025) for doing so.
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Much of what I see theologically is the result of greed, as narcissistic individuals create corporate avarice that "enriches the already rich" (Joan Chittister) and gets by with it when lawsuits brought against the oligarchs are dismissed by MAGA-disposed judges (on the take?) or delayed for so long that the collective air breathed by ordinary folks is sucked out of the room.
Not a day goes by without additional evidence to prove this is so. Only willful ignorance can deny it. And silence only allows the weeds of greed to grow in the field, as supremacists flourish on their yachts and private jets, and in their boardrooms, with the widening gap between CEOs and workers, between billionaires and the rest of us, between haves and have-nots.
One of the questions I ask myself, almost daily, is the one Richard Rohr used as a title for a recent book, "What do we do with evil?" He offers reasoned counsel in relation to the question, but the tide of evil is yet to be stemmed.
And yet...and yet....I cannot stop believing that we are living in a time of New Awakening, which always includes the rise of evil seeking to overcome the good, and that this means believing "though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet." In the context of this vision, we must be mystic-prophets (Matthew Fox) who name the demons on the one hand, while working for the common good on the other.