One way to redeem this passage is to connect it to John 20. To inhale this Spirit means to exhale justice. Read more
One way to redeem this passage is to connect it to John 20. To inhale this Spirit means to exhale justice. Read more
We need a holistic interpretation where people’s spiritual wellbeing is connected to their material economic, political, and social wellbeing. Read more
There is a tendency here to devalue the material, concrete, physical realities in which people suffered and offer instead something ethereal. Read more
A unity that walks arm and arm with justice. A unity that’s big enough to wrap its arms around all over varied differences and call them “good.” Read more
I resonate much more with working to make our concrete world, here and now, a safer, more compassionate, just home for everyone. Read more
Our reading this week is John’s version of Jesus’ farewell prayer. This passage deeply influenced Christians during the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. Read more
Considering the ethics and values within the Jesus story, loving Jesus means actually loving the things he taught and following them. Read more
For the original audiences of the synoptics, “advocate” would have called to mind a deep need of advocacy socially, politically, and economically. Read more
I grew up hearing Christians interpret the Advocate as an intermediary interposing between sinful humans and a holy God. Today, I reject that. Read more
After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately to God being gender-less. Mama God imagery helps. Read more
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