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April 2021

April 06, 2021
The Jesus of John’s story doesn’t do things instead of us, as our substitute so...
April 01, 2021
God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...
April 01, 2021
The book of Acts offers just one example of this alternative focus and emphasis; the...

March 2021

March 30, 2021
The good news was not that Jesus died, or even that he died for you....
March 25, 2021
We could choose to be last in line to oppose those progressive visions for American...
March 24, 2021
Jesus was crucified by Rome not because he was starting a new religion, but because...
March 23, 2021
Not one conception in Jewish history fits Luke’s description of how Mary conceived Jesus. But...
March 19, 2021
Let’s not ask ourselves how we can die. Jesus doesn’t call a person do die,...
March 17, 2021
"The central image of Christ on the cross as the savior of the world communicates...
March 16, 2021
Certain interpretations of these passages have born destructive and even death-dealing fruit in these communities....
March 12, 2021
When public consciousness is raised, change isn’t very far behind, and change is what those...
March 10, 2021
It’s about them coopting the darkness, which is not inherently evil, and using the darkness...
March 09, 2021
“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for...
March 05, 2021
Change for those being harmed never happens fast enough. But in each of our circles...
March 03, 2021
Mark's version of the story is not speaking about Jesus' own death and resurrection as...
March 02, 2021
In one sense, it was a religious act for those who considered faithfulness to the...

February 2021

February 26, 2021
Yet what’s at stake is larger than democracy. As Jesus called his followers, we’re called...
February 24, 2021
The concern is not partisan politics. The concern is humanity, the common good, the good...
February 23, 2021
That is the political or social context in which we must understand the above passage....
February 19, 2021
We can exhale deep relief from the political transition we have just witnessed. And we...
February 17, 2021
It will not be enough to see a more diverse neoliberalism in response to the...
February 15, 2021
Compassion and safety for everyone are just two plants that grow in the soil of...
February 09, 2021
Jesus modeled listening to those who belong to oppressed communities, and going deeper through that...
February 03, 2021
What we are encountering in this gospel story today would today be called intersectionality.
February 01, 2021
This passage may be speaking about ways that oppressed and disinherited people can allow the...

January 2021

January 22, 2021
These are questions worth wrestling with as we enter this new year.
January 21, 2021
A return to social equity always feels like “loss” for those who are privileged and...
January 19, 2021
This is the intrinsic reason why our collective thriving depends on raising up some in...
January 12, 2021
We are witnessing a disparity of values, a disparity of treatment and response, and disparity...
January 08, 2021
This vision is of a world of social structures rooted in love for all. In...
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