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We can explore ways that understanding Universal love that lead us, not to private, assured...

Love that only leaves the privileged in a conscience-appeased state so they can sleep better...

There is a way to teach God’s love that is complicit in oppression and harmful...

I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....

Although the passage we began with focuses on bearing fruit rather than being a dead...

After almost two centuries of Christian patriarchy gendering God as exclusively male, we must recognize...

When we choose to make justice ultimately win, not just in isolated occurrences but systemically,...

This story that so many White Christians hold dear puts God on the side of...

Even today when you do a simple image search for Jesus, you’ll get ten or...

It’s a story that is intended to awaken in us the choice to shape a...

The kind of repentance that leads to that kind of forgiveness, then, is a social...

The gospels’ post resurrection appearance stories follow a familiar pattern that meets the expectations of...

We must be careful not to spiritualize these elements. What is does concrete good news...

"I understand this is a subtle difference in interpretation but it creates a huge difference...

The Jesus of John’s story doesn’t do things instead of us, as our substitute so...

God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...

The book of Acts offers just one example of this alternative focus and emphasis; the...

The good news was not that Jesus died, or even that he died for you....

We could choose to be last in line to oppose those progressive visions for American...

Jesus was crucified by Rome not because he was starting a new religion, but because...

Not one conception in Jewish history fits Luke’s description of how Mary conceived Jesus. But...

Let’s not ask ourselves how we can die. Jesus doesn’t call a person do die,...

"The central image of Christ on the cross as the savior of the world communicates...

Certain interpretations of these passages have born destructive and even death-dealing fruit in these communities....

When public consciousness is raised, change isn’t very far behind, and change is what those...

It’s about them coopting the darkness, which is not inherently evil, and using the darkness...

“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for...

Change for those being harmed never happens fast enough. But in each of our circles...

Mark's version of the story is not speaking about Jesus' own death and resurrection as...

In one sense, it was a religious act for those who considered faithfulness to the...