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January 06, 2021
Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 2 of 3)
Today, we must hold on to the hope that a different iteration of our world...
January 04, 2021
Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 1 of 3)
If Mark could offer good news or "gospel" in the midst of such loss for...
December 2020
December 24, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 9)
Lifting up the poor and pulling down the elite is a direct call to reducing...
December 22, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 8)
Luke’s songs of social, political, and economic deliverance for the poor, marginalized, peasants announce that...
December 21, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 7)
Luke’s birth narratives are centered in the social location of the common people rather than...
December 18, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 6)
These stories are political. They are rooted in the hunger of an oppressed people for...
December 16, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 5)
Originally, Jewish liberation movements used phrases like this. But we must leave these phrases in...
December 14, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 4)
Including the Magi in his story about had both international political and religious implications. And Matthew’s...
December 11, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 3)
This year, as many of us are facing our own harsh realities, there may have...
December 09, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 2)
If we are to rediscover the original subversive power of the birth narratives of Jesus...
December 08, 2020
The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 1)
If we are going to wrest these two narratives from centuries of purely religious and...
December 04, 2020
Transforming Communities Built on Exclusion (Part 3 of 3)
Mark’s Jesus narrative offers a Jesus who has come not to destroy us or who...
December 02, 2020
Transforming Communities Built on Exclusion (Part 2 of 3)
Because the story seeks the root causes of why people are marginalized, there is no...
November 2020
November 30, 2020
Transforming Communities Built on Exclusion (Part 1 of 3)
One possible interpretation of these stories is to understand them as drawing attention to those...
November 20, 2020
No More Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)
These narratives speak of a God who, rather than demanding someone’s sacrifice, stands in solidarity...
November 18, 2020
No More Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)
Both narratives of sacrifice and narratives of anti-sacrifice are found in the sacred texts, and...
November 16, 2020
No More Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)
The unity that comes through sacrificing a common enemy is temporary and must be continually...
November 13, 2020
Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 3 of 3)
To change systemic oppression, every time, we must stand in solidarity with the oppressed, demanding...
November 11, 2020
Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 2 of 3)
In the stories, Jesus was seeking to help both sides reclaim their humanity and that...
November 10, 2020
Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 1 of 3)
Oppression dehumanizes everyone involved. By dehumanizing another, we lose our own humanity, and when we...
November 06, 2020
A Community of the Rejected (Part 3 of 3)
And another iteration of our present world is possible where people who are different are...
November 05, 2020
A Community of the Rejected (Part 2 of 3)
If you’ve been rejected by others, your voice is centered in God’s just future. Those...
November 04, 2020
A Community of the Rejected (Part 1 of 3)
Rejection was a familiar theme for the early followers of Jesus. How can we reclaim...
October 2020
October 30, 2020
An Unjust Judge (Part 3 of 3)
That’s why I don’t interpret this story to be solely about prayer. That would leave...
October 28, 2020
An Unjust Judge (Part 2 of 3)
That’s what this widow did. She made the life of the magistrate uncomfortable until he...
October 27, 2020
An Unjust Judge (Part 1 of 3)
This widow was pleading for equity, what today could be called social justice, and justice...
October 23, 2020
The Social Location of Your Christianity Matters (Part 3 of 3)
Collective choices create change. None of us can change the world all by ourselves, but...
October 21, 2020
The Social Location of Your Christianity Matters (Part 2 of 3)
It’s not a gospel of mercy, grace, and forgiveness that releases us from a Divine,...
October 20, 2020
The Social Location of Your Christianity Matters (Part 1 of 3)
In the story, it was the elite and privileged who felt this disgust and loathing....
October 16, 2020
A Cautionary Tale for Society (Part 3 of 3)
Seeing the man set free from his internalized oppression, the society around him refuses to...
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