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June 2021

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...
May 25, 2021
We encounter the fruit of this today whenever Christians speak negatively of social justice and...
May 20, 2021
The Jesus of John calls us to not let go of life but to take...
May 19, 2021
If we would be humble enough to learn from our Jewish siblings, remembering Jesus himself...
May 18, 2021
Given how Christians have treated our Jewish siblings throughout Christianity’s history, we must be extremely...
May 13, 2021
If we find ourselves opposed by the marginalized because we are actually standing between them...
May 12, 2021
Too often we can conflate criticism and hate. Someone not liking something doesn’t mean they...
May 10, 2021
Being hated by the world is a theme in many sectors of Christianity that has...
May 06, 2021
We can explore ways that understanding Universal love that lead us, not to private, assured...
May 05, 2021
Love that only leaves the privileged in a conscience-appeased state so they can sleep better...
May 04, 2021
There is a way to teach God’s love that is complicit in oppression and harmful...

April 2021

April 30, 2021
I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....
April 29, 2021
Although the passage we began with focuses on bearing fruit rather than being a dead...
April 28, 2021
After almost two centuries of Christian patriarchy gendering God as exclusively male, we must recognize...
April 22, 2021
When we choose to make justice ultimately win, not just in isolated occurrences but systemically,...
April 21, 2021
This story that so many White Christians hold dear puts God on the side of...
April 20, 2021
Even today when you do a simple image search for Jesus, you’ll get ten or...
April 15, 2021
It’s a story that is intended to awaken in us the choice to shape a...
April 14, 2021
The kind of repentance that leads to that kind of forgiveness, then, is a social...
April 12, 2021
The gospels’ post resurrection appearance stories follow a familiar pattern that meets the expectations of...
April 08, 2021
We must be careful not to spiritualize these elements. What is does concrete good news...
April 07, 2021
"I understand this is a subtle difference in interpretation but it creates a huge difference...
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