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September 2019
September 20, 2019
If Jesus taught nonviolence, why does the rest of the Bible seem to endorse or...
September 18, 2019
"In very general terms, this is a saying that warns about reality after liberation becoming...
September 16, 2019
"The work of ending the suffering for so many is being labeled as dangerous and...
September 13, 2019
“He was not about keeping the peace, not disturbing the status quo, but about calling...
September 11, 2019
These conversations often remind me of our deep need to differentiate between self-defense on the...
September 02, 2019
It is one thing to be deceived and mistake something evil for something good. It...
August 2019
August 30, 2019
"We must be much more scandalized by the institutional violence that leads to violent rebellion...
August 28, 2019
We must allow the context of this saying to confront us, to inspire us to...
August 26, 2019
We can make a choice to subvert our culture’s tendency to value property over people...
August 23, 2019
We’ve been discussing the importance of listening to those on the margins of society and...
August 21, 2019
But all of this drives home the point. This reformulation is the result of what...
August 19, 2019
We can listen to the most vulnerable. We can hear from their experiences whether or...
August 16, 2019
"Jesus was teaching the rejection of violent responses to this world’s evil. Yet he was...
August 14, 2019
It doesn’t matter the reason for subjugation or marginalization in domination systems. It’s not the...
August 12, 2019
Change doesn’t have to come through such violent upheaval. It could start today. Here. Now....
August 09, 2019
For many, only when they discover for themselves the Jesus in the story from the...
August 07, 2019
I can’t help but notice that history is cyclical. We in our society today may...
August 05, 2019
The Jesus we meet in the Jesus story resonated with the marginalized and oppressed of...
August 02, 2019
Today we live in the wake of these changes. Christianity and its Jesus fell in...
July 2019
July 31, 2019
Let’s lean more deeply into our shared lives. Let’s find ways relevant for our world...
July 29, 2019
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July 26, 2019
Seven years ago I wrote a series on Nonviolence. Much has changed for me since...
July 24, 2019
In Matthew’s gospel, we read of a societal change that was brewing in Jesus' day:...
July 22, 2019
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July 19, 2019
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July 17, 2019
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July 12, 2019
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July 10, 2019
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July 08, 2019
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July 05, 2019
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