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The bodily autonomy of people in these communities is just the latest example of how...

Early Christians were not concerned with saving people from post-mortem realities as much as they...

Advocacy is any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports...

When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...

It includes the desire to make sure the objects of our love have what they...

This kind of love, too, needs careful defining and explanation to be genuinely life giving...

We thrive together. We survive together. What harms some, always in some way harms everyone.

This community defines itself as “more than” and those who do not define Jesus the...

This can remind Christians both of Jesus’ deep Jewishness, and also how often the language...

This spring, may tulips and daffodils not be the only ones waking up from winter,...

The Hebrew prophetic justice tradition interprets fishing, as a metaphor for removing unjust political rulers...

Most scholars understand this version of the Jesus story to have ended in chapter 20,...

Each resurrection story defines the resurrection in ways that cause his life work to continue...

How many times have we seen those who harm others or benefit from that harm...

Forgiveness divorced from that spirit serves to only perpetuate oppression and harm.

This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...

These are valid questions. How can we reconcile seeing the cross event as a salvific...

One thing that is common to all the gospel narratives is the presence of women...

How we celebrate rituals determines the kind of humans those rituals shape us into being....

This tradition has led quite a few modern Christians to reinterpret how they memorialize Jesus’...

This time of year always amplifies several passages from the passion liturgy that are important...

I don’t believe Jesus’ words in John about poor people should be interpreted as establishing...

But this interpretation benefits those who are enriched by the status quo and don’t want...

Mary’s act is one of gratitude . . . The story is not primarily that...

As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...

"Sinner" was the pejorative label that those at the center of Jesus society used to...

This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...

Democratic societies must be made to birth a distributively just society where the needs of...

This is a good time to pause and reflect on how injustice is unsustainable in...

I don’t hear the moralistic idea of repentance so many of us are used to...