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April 2023

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...
March 28, 2023
Words matter. Often today when Christians read this word they read it as a purely...
March 23, 2023
This is an ancient story of hope. Today, we still need hope that our best...
March 22, 2023
Jewish apocalyptic teaching included the belief that at some future point, all injustice, violence, and...
March 21, 2023
One the biggest differences in John is the story of Lazarus as the reason Jesus...
March 16, 2023
All in all, John chapter 9 is a reminder to me that today, we need...
March 15, 2023
This is important because of the atrocities by Christians against the Jewish community that can...
March 14, 2023
In John Chapter 9, some things are different from later Gnosticism, and there are many...
March 09, 2023
The path we are set on assists us in transforming our world into a just,...
March 08, 2023
A world that is safe for everyone means including those presently marginalized, a theme that...
March 07, 2023
As we consider a world that is safe for everyone, our reading explains why this...
March 02, 2023
This binary contrast quickly becomes an opiate for our world’s injustice and does not inspire...
March 01, 2023
This way of understanding our world has not historically birthed good fruit. It tends to...

February 2023

February 28, 2023
This week's reading points to a spiritual awakening that establishes justice, within an artfully combined...
February 23, 2023
Regarding sacrificing out humanity, we’ll need to interpret these stories differently than the original audience...
February 22, 2023
"This concept often then turns into unhealthy passive acceptance and unhealthy forms of self-sacrifice having...
February 21, 2023
Sacrificing our humanity for bread, contrasted with those things that are life-giving in the long...
February 16, 2023
Matthew’s version of the transfiguration was intended to inspire the gospel’s original audience with a...
February 15, 2023
Jesus as liberation from systemic injustice doesn’t replace Moses. Jesus here is another Moses this...
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