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June 2023

June 06, 2023
What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...
June 01, 2023
What are some of these commands that Matthew’s Jesus tells us to obey? The lion...

May 2023

May 31, 2023
Change is a two way street, an exchange. Those we meet, share with, and listen...
May 30, 2023
We must be honest about how this passage has been coopted by colonialism that has...
May 25, 2023
One way to redeem this passage is to connect it to John 20. To inhale...
May 24, 2023
We need a holistic interpretation where people’s spiritual wellbeing is connected to their material economic,...
May 23, 2023
There is a tendency here to devalue the material, concrete, physical realities in which people...
May 18, 2023
A unity that walks arm and arm with justice. A unity that’s big enough to...
May 17, 2023
I resonate much more with working to make our concrete world, here and now, a...
May 16, 2023
Our reading this week is John’s version of Jesus’ farewell prayer. This passage deeply influenced...
May 11, 2023
Considering the ethics and values within the Jesus story, loving Jesus means actually loving the...
May 10, 2023
For the original audiences of the synoptics, “advocate” would have called to mind a deep...
May 09, 2023
I grew up hearing Christians interpret the Advocate as an intermediary interposing between sinful humans...
May 04, 2023
After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately...
May 03, 2023
The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift...
May 02, 2023
Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal...

April 2023

April 27, 2023
It is important to remember that this abundant living doesn’t come at the expense of...
April 26, 2023
It symbolizes their version of Jesus as a “sheep gate” through which legitimate shepherds would...
April 25, 2023
The shepherd was not a private, individual, or spiritual image in the Jewish tradition as...
April 20, 2023
They may interrupt our work of shaping our world into a safe home for all,...
April 19, 2023
Many who live in or stand in solidarity with oppressed communities have seen how destructive...
April 18, 2023
For the early Jesus followers, the good news was not that Jesus had died, or...
April 13, 2023
This week’s reading is also a good reminder to choose that which is life giving...
April 12, 2023
Both loosing and binding can be life-giving or death-dealing. We must practice informed wisdom that...
April 11, 2023
Each of these commission stories are separate, each told for the distinct purposes of the...
April 06, 2023
This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...
April 05, 2023
The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...
April 04, 2023
For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

March 2023

March 30, 2023
This Palm Sunday, we are reminded that life still triumphs over death, love triumphs over...
March 29, 2023
As we read from Matthew this week for Palm Sunday, our work must then go...
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