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February 2025

February 20, 2025
While we work for justice, we reject judging another human being’s worth or value as...
February 19, 2025
Enemy love means both not cooperating with, resisting or obstructing violence and injustice, and also...
February 18, 2025
Too often turning the other cheek is interpreted as passive nonresitance rather than the cultural...
February 13, 2025
Luke's gospel is for the underprivileged, longing for things to be put right, those present...
February 12, 2025
The equity that the sermon on the plain envisions is a world where there are...
February 11, 2025
Rather than the gospel being universal good news, the first shall be last and the...
February 06, 2025
The examples of the prophetic nature of fishing for people in Jeremiah, Amos, and Ezekiel,...
February 05, 2025
The fishing metaphor was about hooking or catching a harmful, unjust, powerful person, and overturning...
February 04, 2025
Fishing never works out well for the fish! Using it metaphorically as fishing for people...

January 2025

January 31, 2025
Today we need to pay attention to responses that answer justice movements with rage and...
January 30, 2025
In our story this week, merely referring to a community’s history evokes a response of...
January 29, 2025
Our reading this week offers us an openness to addressing the parts of our own...
January 24, 2025
So central was this call to create a new social order that the first generation...
January 23, 2025
The poor and economic justice were one of those themes. The kind of wealth redistribution...
January 22, 2025
Considering how many times Luke’s gospel mentions those living in poverty, it is no wonder...
January 17, 2025
Our reading this weeks reminds us that the goal is human beings not marginalized, oppressed,...
January 15, 2025
The image of turning water into wine reminds us of the saying in the womanist...
January 14, 2025
John’s version and many of its themes are quite unique. That includes this week’s story...
January 09, 2025
May we renew our commitments to justice today and our dedication to taking care of...
January 08, 2025
We are called to work for justice in our contexts in the same way.  What...
January 07, 2025
So many prophetic voices throughout the centuries have called for justice. This week's reading calls...
January 02, 2025
This year, let’s lean deeply into the wisdom and teachings of loving our neighbor and...

December 2024

December 19, 2024
These stores are about the hope of change being born into our world, reversing injustice,...
December 18, 2024
The social locations of the characters in these Christmas stories matter. Pay attention to who...
December 17, 2024
Few stories in the gospels’ narratives of Jesus’ birth demonstrate the intersection of faith and...
December 12, 2024
Advent is about establishing justice on Earth and shaping our world into a just, safe,...
December 11, 2024
Our reading critiques the social institutions of that time and calls for justice toward one...
December 10, 2024
In our advent reading, for a society to repent of past wrongs, it must also...
December 05, 2024
The reminder in our reading this week is even when we are faced with the...
December 04, 2024
Even in the face of deep social and economic devastation of vulnerable communities, a path...
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