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July 2022

July 12, 2022
Mary chooses to transgress patriarchal, gender binary, gender role assumptions. The story also lauds her...
July 07, 2022
Whether we think of political, religious, or social communities, what does it look like for...
July 06, 2022
Affirming theologians often use love as the lens through which to interpret and understand their...
July 05, 2022
Given Rabbi Hillel’s influence in 1st Century Judaism, the Hillellian practice of interpreting Torah through...

June 2022

June 30, 2022
This calls us to reassess the social waters we swim in. It encourages interdependence rather...
June 29, 2022
We deeply need to reconnect with the reality that we are part of one another....
June 28, 2022
These itinerant workers were to be characterized by dependence, not independence, connectedness as contrasted with...
June 02, 2022
People of all genders should be able to see themselves as bearing the image of...
June 01, 2022
This declaration specifically excludes women from the Imago Dei and justifies the exclusion by referring...

May 2022

May 31, 2022
For Boyer, every other detail of the incarnation is incidental, but the fact that Jesus...
May 26, 2022
If we have to choose between unity and harm being done to those our status...
May 25, 2022
Think of how communities that suffer harm and injustice are often called to forgive and...
May 24, 2022
Beliefs were important, but they always held in tension with what fruit those beliefs were...
May 19, 2022
The bodily autonomy of people in these communities is just the latest example of how...
May 18, 2022
Early Christians were not concerned with saving people from post-mortem realities as much as they...
May 17, 2022
Advocacy is any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports...
May 12, 2022
When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...
May 11, 2022
It includes the desire to make sure the objects of our love have what they...
May 10, 2022
This kind of love, too, needs careful defining and explanation to be genuinely life giving...
May 05, 2022
We thrive together. We survive together. What harms some, always in some way harms everyone.
May 04, 2022
This community defines itself as “more than” and those who do not define Jesus the...
May 03, 2022
This can remind Christians both of Jesus’ deep Jewishness, and also how often the language...

April 2022

April 28, 2022
This spring, may tulips and daffodils not be the only ones waking up from winter,...
April 27, 2022
The Hebrew prophetic justice tradition interprets fishing, as a metaphor for removing unjust political rulers...
April 26, 2022
Most scholars understand this version of the Jesus story to have ended in chapter 20,...
April 21, 2022
Each resurrection story defines the resurrection in ways that cause his life work to continue...
April 20, 2022
How many times have we seen those who harm others or benefit from that harm...
April 19, 2022
Forgiveness divorced from that spirit serves to only perpetuate oppression and harm.
April 14, 2022
This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...
April 13, 2022
These are valid questions. How can we reconcile seeing the cross event as a salvific...
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