Senje Wekoye SarahRuth Hodgkinson Davis explores the question “Who harms?” by weaving together scripture, Universalist theology, and contemporary reflections on human behavior. She opens with Hosea Ballou’s A Treatise on Atonement, using his imagery of rivers flowing toward the ocean to illustrate how human experiences—stained by “various mines and soils through which they pass”—ultimately return to a larger wholeness. She pairs this with the familiar passage from Matthew 25, reminding listeners that acts of compassion toward “the least of these” are acts of sacred solidarity.

From there, she turns to the lived reality of harm: its causes, its consequences, and its universality. She emphasizes that harm is not abstract but tangible—“the harm to that earthworm is real,” she notes, and so is the harm caused by enviro ...