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February 2026

February 26, 2026
These stories call us to love our world and to participate in that love by...
February 25, 2026
This imagery used in our reading this week reminds us that healing begins when the...
February 24, 2026
The scene is quite familiar for those today in justice work who take up the...
February 19, 2026
Movements for justice are often tempted to seek change by compromising core values in exchange...
February 18, 2026
Turning stones to bread warns against substituting band-aid fixes or miraculous charity for structural transformation.
February 17, 2026
This year’s season of Lent begins with Matthew’s version of Jesus’ temptations. These narrative choices...
February 12, 2026
They represent tradition of liberation and courage stretching back to Moses and Elijah and continuing...
February 11, 2026
It is easier to build monuments than to build a better world. Moments represented in...
February 10, 2026
The transfiguration story contains imagery of liberation from imperial domination and prophetic resistance to corrupt...
February 05, 2026
The prophets critique structures that claim legality or tradition while perpetuating inequality, exclusion, or violence.
February 04, 2026
A city on a hill has often been lifted out of its context and repurposed...
February 03, 2026
Like salt, justice oriented faith requires proximity to injustice and a willingness to be changed...

January 2026

January 30, 2026
Commitments to stand with the marginalized and challenge systems that benefit the powerful are frequently...
January 29, 2026
A just world will not belong to the ruthless, arrogant, and aggressive, but to the...
January 28, 2026
The beatitudes challenges societies that equate worth with wealth and power, and invites communities to...
January 22, 2026
As we step ahead into this new year, this means choosing justice over comfort, compassion...
January 21, 2026
The gospel stories define fidelity to God not by religious performance, but by love of...
January 20, 2026
This defined religious fidelity not as private piety but as concrete social justice rooted in...
January 15, 2026
Fishing here is not about rescuing the fish but about dragging predatory rulers grown fat...
January 14, 2026
In the gospel Jesus preached within the stories, faithfulness to God is inseparable from justice...
January 13, 2026
Interrogating the metaphor of darkness is not about banning poetic language but about recognizing how...
January 08, 2026
John's message also had explicit social and economic dimensions. John the Baptist called his listeners...
January 07, 2026
This union with empire under Constantinian continues to this day to shape Christian theology, ethics,...
January 06, 2026
As the social location of Christianity changed and became united with the empire the justice...
January 01, 2026
A new year calls for a continuing of our committment to a justice work that...

December 2025

December 31, 2025
Healthy interpretations emphasize continuity: the synoptic gospels continue and intensify the Hebrew prophetic societal justice...
December 30, 2025
New beginnings require responsible interpretations that take into account historical contexts and couragously reject harmful...
December 24, 2025
When faith is subordinated to nationalist goals, it loses its capacity to speak truth to...
December 23, 2025
The scientific impossibility of a virgin birth often distracts us from the political point that...
December 23, 2025
The use of familiar forms of imperial birth legends and filling them with radically different...
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