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November 2021

November 09, 2021
Christians have long interpreted these events in ways that have proven deeply harmful to our...
November 04, 2021
This story does not praise the piety of the poor within a system that takes...
November 03, 2021
To get life-giving answers, we must first ask life-giving questions, and the common interpretations of...
November 02, 2021
Common interpretations of our story this week fall short. I find these interpretations deeply harmful...

October 2021

October 28, 2021
We are extensions of each other, and part of the same human family. What affects...
October 27, 2021
"This passage both to affirms Judaism and critiques more regressive and fundamentalist forms of Christianity,...
October 26, 2021
Many today tout loving your neighbor as a religious tenet, but this passage shows it...
October 21, 2021
It’s not enough to remove the basis for people being treated as less-than. We must...
October 20, 2021
Can we follow the values we have found to be life-giving in the Jesus story...
October 19, 2021
Gospel stories like this one have repeatedly been the seed of society perceiving people with...
October 15, 2021
If we take seriously Jesus’ call for no more lords, and we work for a...
October 14, 2021
I appreciate the emphasis on not encouraging lordship, and we must also be honest that...
October 13, 2021
Crucifixion was not a passive acceptance of abuse and injustice. It was Rome’s punishment for...
October 07, 2021
Christians have always come up with ways around stories like these in the gospels. What...
October 06, 2021
We read this story too individualistically in our culture today. Societal, systemic change begins with...
October 05, 2021
The greater the wealth disparities within economic systems, the stronger the critique for those who...

September 2021

September 30, 2021
It’s not just okay but it’s actually right for us to be angry when we...
September 29, 2021
Where we read of the creation of day and night: not a hard binary but...
September 28, 2021
Christians today do a great deal of harm by shallowly thinking Jesus was against all...
September 23, 2021
Something is good, remember, based on the kind of fruit it produces, whether it is...
September 22, 2021
The language that the gospels used here would not have conjured a vision of post-mortem,...
September 21, 2021
There is an alternative, especially for those attracted to the ethical teachings of Jesus but...
September 09, 2021
This story is, on the other hand, encouraging Jesus' followers to resist as he did...
September 08, 2021
If you believe that acceptance of suffering gives life, then your resources for confronting perpetrators...
September 07, 2021
Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of “taking up one’s cross” to prioritize themselves...
September 02, 2021
We can choose in these moments, not to get defensive, but to apologize when our...
September 01, 2021
The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

August 2021

August 31, 2021
This story offers a lot to us in the context of our own blinkered ways...
August 26, 2021
I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...
August 25, 2021
These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...
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