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August 2021

August 04, 2021
Can we reclaim this passage in our lectionary reading for this week?

July 2021

July 30, 2021
Today I belong to a community that’s very different than the one I used to...
July 29, 2021
In this context, an alternative, life-giving interpretation might be a call to focus on the...
July 28, 2021
This school of interpretive thought has born deeply destructive fruit and has always been coopted...
July 23, 2021
Various expressions of Christianity have likewise been complicit in seizing power. Powerful Christians have cooperated...
July 22, 2021
This social consciousness appears to be part of the fabric of what it meant to...
July 21, 2021
Among the canonical gospels, there are six versions of this story. Resource-sharing was central to...
July 16, 2021
Whether we call it the reign of God or God’s just future or simply a...
July 15, 2021
This scene is not about heaven or later, but about what people are experiencing here...
July 14, 2021
The itinerant liberator image of Jesus that we encounter in Mark raises a question of...
July 08, 2021
Truth telling will always carry consequences, some beneficial and others difficult to bear.
July 07, 2021
The phrase “Speak Truth to Power” has its origins in the American Friends Service Committee...
July 06, 2021
This story is an example of a familiar theme in the Hebrew prophets.
July 01, 2021
we take responsibility for taking care of one another, not to establish dependency, but because...

June 2021

June 30, 2021
In our context, American capitalistic individualism and independence, which too often masquerade as freedom, dependence as...
June 29, 2021
What does it actually mean for the empire of God to come? It begins with...
June 24, 2021
In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...
June 23, 2021
But the story actually prioritizes and centers this marginalized woman over the named, male, synagogue...
June 22, 2021
The contrasting social locations of these recipients of Jesus’ work is one of the most...
June 17, 2021
We don’t need a peace that is only a passive lull in our struggle for...
June 16, 2021
Superiority, supremacy, exceptionalism, and/or a “chosen” status’ have only proved to divide us within the...
June 15, 2021
Up until this point, Jesus was an exorcist or healer in stories that subtly call...
June 11, 2021
I have a hunch that some translators may be trying to avoid the misogyny in...
June 10, 2021
Similarly, the call to affirm, embrace, and include LGBTQ Christians in the church is not...
June 09, 2021
This week’s reading is asking us to check our assumptions about what we have classified...
June 04, 2021
Today our strong man could be capitalism, White supremacy, Christian nationalism, cisheterosexism, and more. All...
June 03, 2021
These are not just stories of mythical demons and exorcisms. That shallow understanding misses the...
June 02, 2021
Outgrowing these values is often part of the work we must do to participate in...

May 2021

May 27, 2021
Do we find teachings lifted up in the Jesus story that aid our work of...
May 26, 2021
Classifying our flesh, bodies, and material world or nature as, at best, unimportant or disposable...
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