Life can also conquer death today if we will choose it. Our political, economic, and even religious climate is full of opportunities to stand up to death and choose life. Another iteration of our world is possible. Read more
August 5, 2020
The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 2 of 3)
August 5, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
The resurrection is not a scientific declaration of a person coming back to life. It’s a political statement that the present system does not have to have the last word. Life can conquer even when death seeks to extinguish it. Read more
August 3, 2020
The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 1 of 3)
August 3, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
I don’t believe that triumph is automatic. We have to choose life and life-giving ways of organizing our society for life to ultimately triumph over systemic death and death-dealing. Read more
July 30, 2020
Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 3 of 3)
July 30, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of continuity rather than of change, conformity rather than transformation becomes the reigning ideology of the day, and the church that is comfortable with the powers-that-be is no threat to them.” Read more
July 29, 2020
Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 2 of 3)
July 29, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences of redemptive suffering, God-talk that equates the acceptance of pain, misery, and abuse as the way for true believers to live as authentic Christian disciples. Those who spew such false teaching and warped preaching must cease and desist.” Read more
July 28, 2020
Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 1 of 3)
July 28, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values how that bread is produced and what its production violates or affirms. Our hope is “not by bread alone.” Read more
July 23, 2020
Systems of Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)
July 23, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the world that exists post-COVID will be determined by the kind of people we choose to be right now during COVID. Read more
July 22, 2020
Systems of Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)
July 22, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the name of the economy during this COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
July 21, 2020
Systems of Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)
July 21, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic Being to let us off the hook. Rather, it’s about healing. The Jesus of the canonical gospels brought personal healing, and he also called for societal and systemic healing: a society that included and prioritized the excluded and marginalized. Read more
July 16, 2020
Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 3 of 3)
July 16, 2020 By Herb Montgomery
I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus followers seeking social justice “fools.” It is past time for those who bear the name of Jesus to see in the gospel stories Jesus’ calls for social change. Read more
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