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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...
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...
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