In this special edition of Jubilee Updates, we report on the experiences of the 25th Anniversary Jubilee Delegation to Mexico, October 19-26, 2025. When we travel to the Jubilee Circles in Mexico, we join one another to make real our solidarity and reject hyper-independence. Together we reaffirm our resistance to patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, and accumulation as we focus on our Jubilee work that goes a better way.
Living in the U.S. right now, we hear one delusion after another coming from those who want to be in the ruling elite and force themselves on the majority. Truth lives elsewhere from these delusional spaces. By definition, delusion lives separately from truth. A whole world of delusion is continually under construction with the hope of drowning truth.
The word “moral” is not the word that comes to mind to describe the U.S. “economy.” Immorality in the current economy makes it our job to imagine an economy that generates moral relationships with Earth and all her inhabitants.
This letter reveals a whole lot about how Jubilee thought and action work in far southern Mexico where the López Pérez family live, work, and minister. In 2022, with your donations, Jubilee could send only a few hundred dollars to support this family and the “freelance” start of a new Jubilee ministry in Tapachula.
With open arms we welcome a new project spearheaded by Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, “Building a Moral Economy.” Cynthia is at Pacific Lutheran Seminary, Berkeley, California. The project website, https://www.buildingamoraleconomy.org/, gives us a great overview and introduces the rest of the project’s team of thought leaders and activists.