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June 06, 2023
Healing, Part 1 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women
What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...
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The Sermon on the Mount, Part 3 of Obeying What Jesus Taught
What are some of these commands that Matthew’s Jesus tells us to obey? The lion...
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Change is a two way street, an exchange. Those we meet, share with, and listen...
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We must be honest about how this passage has been coopted by colonialism that has...
May 25, 2023
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One way to redeem this passage is to connect it to John 20. To inhale...
May 24, 2023
The Material, Part 2 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice
We need a holistic interpretation where people’s spiritual wellbeing is connected to their material economic,...
May 23, 2023
The Ethereal, Part 1 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice
There is a tendency here to devalue the material, concrete, physical realities in which people...
May 18, 2023
Justice, Part 3 of A Unity That’s Big Enough
A unity that walks arm and arm with justice. A unity that’s big enough to...
May 17, 2023
Knowing, Part 2 of A Unity That’s Big Enough
I resonate much more with working to make our concrete world, here and now, a...
May 16, 2023
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Our reading this week is John’s version of Jesus’ farewell prayer. This passage deeply influenced...
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Considering the ethics and values within the Jesus story, loving Jesus means actually loving the...
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Advocacy, Part 2 of Loving What Jesus Taught
For the original audiences of the synoptics, “advocate” would have called to mind a deep...
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Advocate, Part 1 of Loving What Jesus Taught
I grew up hearing Christians interpret the Advocate as an intermediary interposing between sinful humans...
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Dear Mama God, Part 3 of Gendering God
After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately...
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The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift...
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Exclusivity, Part 1 of Gendering God
Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal...
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Life Abundant, Part 3 of Fulness of Life for Everyone
It is important to remember that this abundant living doesn’t come at the expense of...
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A Sheep Gate, Part 2 of Fulness of Life for Everyone
It symbolizes their version of Jesus as a “sheep gate” through which legitimate shepherds would...
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A Shepherd, Part 1 of Fulness of Life for Everyone
The shepherd was not a private, individual, or spiritual image in the Jewish tradition as...
April 20, 2023
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They may interrupt our work of shaping our world into a safe home for all,...
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Many who live in or stand in solidarity with oppressed communities have seen how destructive...
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For the early Jesus followers, the good news was not that Jesus had died, or...
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This week’s reading is also a good reminder to choose that which is life giving...
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Both loosing and binding can be life-giving or death-dealing. We must practice informed wisdom that...
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Each of these commission stories are separate, each told for the distinct purposes of the...
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This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...
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The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...
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For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...
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Palm Sunday and a Contrast of Values, Part 3 of On the Foal of a Donkey
This Palm Sunday, we are reminded that life still triumphs over death, love triumphs over...
March 29, 2023
Palm Sunday Ethics, Part 2 of On the Foal of a Donkey
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