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February 2022

February 01, 2022
This interpretation has made Christian missionary efforts vulnerable to being coopted by European and later...

January 2022

January 27, 2022
We don’t have to disparage Jewish people, Jewish wisdom, or Judaism to value Jesus and...
January 26, 2022
As the Jesus community became primarily Gentile, it added anti-Jewish elements to our sacred stories,...
January 25, 2022
Christians have little credibility critiquing other groups when there is so much housekeeping that needs...
January 20, 2022
There are so many of us today who benefit from the violence of our present...
January 19, 2022
Of all the passages in the Hebrew scriptures that the author of Luke could have...
January 18, 2022
This choice not only reveals a passion for those being marginalized in any system, but...
January 13, 2022
We already have a mandate in place: love your neighbor as yourself. This mandate requires...
January 12, 2022
What designates one as a follower of Jesus is not the creeds we mentally assent...
January 11, 2022
We don’t have to disparage any other religion, especially not Judaism, to value the Jesus...
January 06, 2022
This makes me wonder what our baptism-like rituals today are. How do we, too, publicly...
January 05, 2022
John's baptism invited people to denounce injustice, to cleanse the canvas so to speak for...
January 04, 2022
The one “in whom I am well pleased” was to be associated with the world...

December 2021

December 23, 2021
We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her...
December 22, 2021
Joseph is neither centered nor given any voice at all in this story. Let's talk...
December 21, 2021
The Christmas and childhood narratives of Jesus in the gospels are following an ancient format....
December 16, 2021
Mary's story, like Jael’s and Judith’s, is much more scandalous. The life growing in here...
December 15, 2021
Medieval images of Jael often depict her as a prefiguration of Mary the mother of Jesus.
December 14, 2021
Those who heard Luke’s narrative and were familiar with the stories of the Hebrew scriptures...
December 09, 2021
Social location matters. Which communities in which social locations have we chosen to speak out...
December 08, 2021
A Christianity that focuses on achieving entrance into heaven without regard for injustices being committed...
December 07, 2021
The concern is for justice to be practiced within society because deeds prove social repentance...
December 02, 2021
Advent tells a liberation story that 2,000 years ago inspired hope in those who were...
December 01, 2021
Before any social change has ever taken place, years of groundwork has been laid. Change...

November 2021

November 30, 2021
The gospel message here, and one of my favorite Advent themes, is that salvation, change,...
November 26, 2021
The hope and belief that a new iteration of our world is possible, and that...
November 24, 2021
Following this model, one way of interpreting the end of violent empires and the chaos...
November 23, 2021
Even in the chaos of their changing world, they could perceive an opportunity to make...
November 11, 2021
I don’t want a post-pandemic world that looks like the pre-pandemic world. We can do...
November 10, 2021
Seeing the overthrowing of such economically exploitative systems not as “the end,” but as the...
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