Christian Iosso, Author at The Presbyterian Outlook https://pres-outlook.org/author/christian-iosso/ News and Articles from the The Presbyterian Outlook Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:10:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://pres-outlook.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/outlook-logo.svg Christian Iosso, Author at The Presbyterian Outlook https://pres-outlook.org/author/christian-iosso/ 32 32 Christmas Beatitudes https://pres-outlook.org/2023/12/christmas-beatitudes/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:00:04 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=120938 Christian Iosso writes: "Blessed are those who have no 'home for the holidays,' without jobs or funds to buy gifts, who have outlived their friends..."

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]]> Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison https://pres-outlook.org/2022/10/our-class-trauma-and-transformation-in-an-american-prison/ Tue, 25 Oct 2022 01:08:05 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=109497 "This play, and the stories it contained, was an experience of transfiguration."

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]]> Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America https://pres-outlook.org/2022/02/fulfillment-winning-and-losing-in-one-click-america/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:31:50 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=92949 Alec MacGillis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pages

What’s happening to Baltimore, Maryland? To St. Louis, Missouri? To Dayton, Ohio? To Newark, New Jersey? To Dubuque, Iowa, and Fort Worth, Texas? Investigative reporter Alec MacGillis says that we’re seeing more than just two generations of deindustrialization, offshoring and general inequality. Not all these cities were industrial powerhouses, but they were regional magnets for enterprise and centers of creativity, often with noteworthy academic institutions.

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]]> A tribute to Don Shriver https://pres-outlook.org/2021/09/a-tribute-to-don-shriver/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:00:35 +0000 https://pres-outlook.org/?p=89240 Guest commentary by Christian T. Iosso 

Don Shriver was on my committee when I received my Ph.D. in ethics from Union Seminary in 1991. I want to say several things about Don’s contribution to the Presbyterian Church’s social ethics thinking and action. I served for more than 14 years as coordinator of the Presbyterian Church’s social witness policy. (Don had earlier served nine years on that committee, with several years as its chairperson.)

In the early 1980s,

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