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May 19, 2022
Social Advocacy (Part 3 of 3)
The bodily autonomy of people in these communities is just the latest example of how...
May 18, 2022
Social Advocacy (Part 2 of 3)
Early Christians were not concerned with saving people from post-mortem realities as much as they...
May 17, 2022
Social Advocacy (Part 1 of 3)
Advocacy is any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports...
May 12, 2022
Loving One Another and Justice (Part 3 of 3)
When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...
May 11, 2022
Loving One Another and Justice (Part 2 of 3)
It includes the desire to make sure the objects of our love have what they...
May 10, 2022
Loving One Another and Justice (Part 1 of 3)
This kind of love, too, needs careful defining and explanation to be genuinely life giving...
May 05, 2022
Being Part of One Another (Part 3 of 3)
We thrive together. We survive together. What harms some, always in some way harms everyone.
May 04, 2022
Being Part of One Another (Part 2 of 3)
This community defines itself as “more than” and those who do not define Jesus the...
May 03, 2022
Being Part of One Another (Part 1 of 3)
This can remind Christians both of Jesus’ deep Jewishness, and also how often the language...
April 2022
April 28, 2022
Another Beginning (Part 3 of 3)
This spring, may tulips and daffodils not be the only ones waking up from winter,...
April 27, 2022
Another Beginning (Part 2 of 3)
The Hebrew prophetic justice tradition interprets fishing, as a metaphor for removing unjust political rulers...
April 26, 2022
Another Beginning (Part 1 of 3)
Most scholars understand this version of the Jesus story to have ended in chapter 20,...
April 21, 2022
Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 3 of 3)
Each resurrection story defines the resurrection in ways that cause his life work to continue...
April 20, 2022
Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 2 of 3)
How many times have we seen those who harm others or benefit from that harm...
April 19, 2022
Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 1 of 3)
Forgiveness divorced from that spirit serves to only perpetuate oppression and harm.
April 14, 2022
Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)
This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...
April 13, 2022
Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 2 of 3)
These are valid questions. How can we reconcile seeing the cross event as a salvific...
April 12, 2022
Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)
One thing that is common to all the gospel narratives is the presence of women...
April 07, 2022
A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 3 of 3)
How we celebrate rituals determines the kind of humans those rituals shape us into being....
April 06, 2022
A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 2 of 3)
This tradition has led quite a few modern Christians to reinterpret how they memorialize Jesus’...
April 05, 2022
A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 1 of 3)
This time of year always amplifies several passages from the passion liturgy that are important...
March 2022
March 31, 2022
Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 3 of 3)
I don’t believe Jesus’ words in John about poor people should be interpreted as establishing...
March 30, 2022
Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 2 of 3)
But this interpretation benefits those who are enriched by the status quo and don’t want...
March 29, 2022
Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 1 of 3)
Mary’s act is one of gratitude . . . The story is not primarily that...
March 24, 2022
Excluded by Exclusion (Part 3 of 3)
As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...
March 23, 2022
Excluded by Exclusion (Part 2 of 3)
"Sinner" was the pejorative label that those at the center of Jesus society used to...
March 22, 2022
Excluded by Exclusion (Part 1 of 3)
This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...
March 17, 2022
Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 3 of 3)
Democratic societies must be made to birth a distributively just society where the needs of...
March 16, 2022
Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 2 of 3)
This is a good time to pause and reflect on how injustice is unsustainable in...
March 15, 2022
Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 1 of 3)
I don’t hear the moralistic idea of repentance so many of us are used to...
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