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November 2022

November 29, 2022
The margins are the places where liberation faith and hope are renewed and where change...
November 25, 2022
I understand why a reversal would have resonated with the original audience of our passage,...
November 23, 2022
Herb Montgomery, director of Renewed Heart Ministries, is an author and adult religious re-educator helping...
November 22, 2022
In this Advent narrative, all violence, injustice, and imperial oppression is finally answered for as...
November 17, 2022
Life can overcome death. Love can overcome hate. Justice and compassion can overcome wrongs even...
November 16, 2022
The story we read this week is ultimately a story of hope, a story of...
November 15, 2022
In the story, the crucifixion was an unjust act of state violence, an act God...
November 11, 2022
We need to be honest about the harm we have done in the past, and...
November 10, 2022
This passage in the lectionary gives us the opportunity to talk about the harm that...
November 08, 2022
Through these stories, anti-Jewishness could grow into these passages and interpretations of these passages that...
November 04, 2022
Today, we must ask whether our social institutions are being practiced in life-giving or death-dealing...
November 03, 2022
This week’s reading challenges all our institutions, systems, and social structures including marriage.
November 01, 2022
His response in each synoptic gospel is telling: and that response doesn’t seem to be...

October 2022

October 27, 2022
Our doing better is not an act of charity. It’s the work of reclaiming our...
October 26, 2022
We must read this week’s story within this context. This backdrop also gives new insights...
October 25, 2022
We miss a lot in this story if we don’t understand it in terms of...
October 21, 2022
Are we building systems that give life to those who marginalized and vulnerable or are...
October 19, 2022
Though religiously observant in their own eyes, they were still politically complicit in the concrete...
October 18, 2022
This week’s passage is about a lot more than just humility.  It’s also about complicity...
October 13, 2022
No effort invested in working toward a safe, compassionate, just world that is home for...
October 12, 2022
From start to finish, the entire context of our story is  of establishing justice on...
October 11, 2022
Persistence in working for societal justice is at the heart of these kinds of sacred...
October 07, 2022
Those of us from Western cultures have a lot we can learn from cultures that...
October 05, 2022
It isolated them from a community-based system of survival to an individualistic mode of survival....
October 04, 2022
Survival depended on belonging to a community comprised of a network of rural families and...

September 2022

September 29, 2022
These stories cared about the concrete harm being done to the marginalized and exploited. Today,...
September 28, 2022
Peasants could not imagine a world without feudalism. We find it difficult to imagine a...
September 27, 2022
"To hear this parable, however, we must again remove some of the Christian theological wax...
September 22, 2022
It’s much more realistic to focus on the gains and losses we experience in this...
September 21, 2022
This is a retributive punishment to satisfy the person inflicting the suffering who feels the...
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