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February 2023

February 14, 2023
This week’s theme is Transfiguration. What difference does it make to see this story in...
February 09, 2023
In our rewrite of the sermon on the mount, one thing that should remain is...
February 08, 2023
This language in the sermon on the mount is warning not of a postmortem experience,...
February 07, 2023
Our reading this week from the sermon on the mount gives us a window into...
February 02, 2023
In our own era today, we desperately need to transition to more loving, compassionate, and...
February 01, 2023
Safe-for-everyone interpretations and practices means change when immense harm has been done by a traditional...

January 2023

January 31, 2023
Safe-for-everyone means that we can do with the Jesus story today what those in the...
January 27, 2023
These words are Jesus’ vision for a world here, now, today, where those presently being...
January 26, 2023
A new iteration rejects focusing on prescribing virtues we are to develop individually, whereby the...
January 24, 2023
It is helpful to remember that these words are descriptive, not prescriptive. They have long...
January 20, 2023
Healing justice can still liberate today as it did in some of our most sacred,...
January 19, 2023
Whatever one decides to call it, we are talking about changes here and now, life-giving...
January 18, 2023
This impacts how we talk about the Bible’s use of light and darkness, too. We...
January 12, 2023
If we aren’t careful we are telling those being harmed to be patient, that something...
January 11, 2023
If we interpret Jesus’ death as redemptive suffering, then this becomes a life model for...
January 10, 2023
It is helpful to understand some of the political context in which this passage was...
January 06, 2023
Yet once you see the social emphasis of the gospel stories, it’s really hard to...
January 05, 2023
These societal injustices could have been things such as complicity with Empire, injustice toward the...
January 04, 2023
All of these connections to liberation and justice would have been made by those who...

December 2022

December 22, 2022
When it comes to those pushed to the undersides and edges of our society, this...
December 21, 2022
The angel doesn’t appear to the ruling class, but to rural shepherds, who we’d call...
December 20, 2022
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks...
December 16, 2022
Can ethics in the Jesus story, such as solidarity with the marginalized, still promise a...
December 15, 2022
"An ever-repeating theme of these Jewish liberation narratives is that YHWH stands in solidarity with...
December 14, 2022
Many scholars believe the stories about Jesus’ birth and infancy in Matthew and Luke were...
December 09, 2022
This concern for some people's material needs can evolve to include people to whom expressions...
December 08, 2022
We can acknowledge how the ableism in our gospels stories has born harmful fruit, and...
December 07, 2022
Love is a traditional theme during Advent. In the gospels, love holds the most concrete...
December 01, 2022
May all things death-dealing be burned up like chaff with fire that cannot be quenched....

November 2022

November 30, 2022
Change comes from the bottom up and outside in. To put it in our language...
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