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December 2024

December 03, 2024
This detail cannot be lost on us because it offers a bit of wisdom and...

November 2024

November 28, 2024
I know what is coming won’t be easy. But this Advent, I’m holding on to...
November 27, 2024
Our reading takes this image and looks forward to future liberation and restoration for a...
November 26, 2024
That ancient passage was intended to offer a vision for the advent of liberation, to...
November 21, 2024
So much is here in the Barabbas story for us to painfully unpack and explore....
November 20, 2024
It’s one thing to have differing political and economic views about what we as a...
November 19, 2024
In the wake of recent events, I sincerely wish Christians were less involved in our...
November 14, 2024
To be clear, our present challenges will be significant. And yet, we don’t have to...
November 13, 2024
We must not underestimate the trauma and loss that this community was enduring and trying...
November 12, 2024
This is not the end. There is still hope. This, painful as it may be,...
November 07, 2024
Like the widow's mites, does our religious practice cause harm or bring healing, life, renewal,...
November 06, 2024
“Devoted to God” meant devoted to the State, and it didn’t trickle down to the...
November 05, 2024
Our reading this week contains one of the most misunderstood stories in Mark’s gospel. The...

October 2024

October 31, 2024
This Tuesday, love your neighbor by getting out there and voting for love and justice....
October 30, 2024
In this life, the closest we will ever get to loving God is how we...
October 29, 2024
So closely is love connected to justice that it impossible to claim you even have...
October 24, 2024
Proximity doesn’t guarantee change. But it does provide the opportunity for change, through crossing lines...
October 23, 2024
I can’t help but see a critique of Christian nationalism in the contrast between James,...
October 22, 2024
The Bartimaeus story has social, political, and economic dimensions that are rarely touched on in...
October 17, 2024
Standing up for love and justice sometimes involves drinking the same cup and baptism. In...
October 16, 2024
In Mark, these stories aren't about a Jesus doing things for or instead of his...
October 15, 2024
Elements that Christianity has typically viewed through the lens of substitution, Mark's gospel frames in...
October 10, 2024
No one can serve two masters. You will hate the one and love the other....
October 09, 2024
The human dilemma in regards to most everything including money is, in large part, that...
October 08, 2024
This week’s reading gets to the heart of one of the central teachings of the...
October 03, 2024
Justice and that which was life-giving were the concerns in our reading. That which is...
October 02, 2024
The culture wherein these ancient divorce laws were written was predominantly heterosexist and deeply patriarchal.
October 01, 2024
These laws written about divorce were not written with the same cultural practices and assumptions...

September 2024

September 26, 2024
We are called to affect and transform our world into a safe, compassionate, just home...
September 25, 2024
A central theme of our reading this week is what Liberation Theologians call a preferential...
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