But all of this drives home the point. This reformulation is the result of what the vulnerable see! Those in positions of privilege and power in our society are so indoctrinated and socialized that they don’t even see what is so wrong and dangerous about the traditional description of love-as-atoning sacrifice. Read more
August 21, 2019
Beatitude for Those Who Perceive God in the Othered
August 21, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
August 19, 2019
Listening to Those on the Margins and the Gendering of God
August 19, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
We can listen to the most vulnerable. We can hear from their experiences whether or not our “revelations” or interpretations of sacred texts produce good fruit, whether interpretations are life-giving or oppressive to those on the margins. Read more
August 16, 2019
A Primer on Self Affirming, Nonviolence (Part 3)
August 16, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
“Jesus was teaching the rejection of violent responses to this world’s evil. Yet he was not teaching that we should simply do nothing! Jesus was teaching nonviolent ways for oppressed people to take the initiative, to affirm their humanity, to expose and neutralize exploitative circumstances.” Read more
August 14, 2019
Things Only Seen by Those on the Margins
August 14, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
It doesn’t matter the reason for subjugation or marginalization in domination systems. It’s not the reason for the exclusion that Jesus rejects, but the exclusion itself! Read more
August 12, 2019
Responses of Passive Apathy
August 12, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
Change doesn’t have to come through such violent upheaval. It could start today. Here. Now. With you and with me, if we will choose it. Read more
August 9, 2019
Reading Jesus from the Margins
August 9, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
For many, only when they discover for themselves the Jesus in the story from the perspective of their own social location do they realize there is an alternative, story-Jesus that’s radically different than the Jesus they encountered in the religion that formed around him. Read more
August 7, 2019
Responding to Rejection
August 7, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
I can’t help but notice that history is cyclical. We in our society today may be being faced with similar choices between what we have now and a path of nonviolence and resource-sharing. Read more
August 5, 2019
Jesus and Marginalized Communities
August 5, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
The Jesus we meet in the Jesus story resonated with the marginalized and oppressed of the 1st Century. It makes perfect sense that those who share that experience today will see within the Jesus story things that others in a more dominant social position will initially miss. Read more
August 2, 2019
A Primer on Self Affirming, Nonviolence (Part 2)
August 2, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
Today we live in the wake of these changes. Christianity and its Jesus fell in the same way as all the other religions taken in by Rome . . . If the bloody violence of Christianity’s history has taught us anything, it is that we must question the Christian theory of justified violence including redemptive violence. Read more
July 31, 2019
Our Communal Interdependence Versus Individualistic Independence
July 31, 2019 By Herb Montgomery
Let’s lean more deeply into our shared lives. Let’s find ways relevant for our world today of acknowledging and tapping our interdependence and shared power, the power of community. Read more
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