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September 2021

September 07, 2021
Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of “taking up one’s cross” to prioritize themselves...
September 02, 2021
We can choose in these moments, not to get defensive, but to apologize when our...
September 01, 2021
The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

August 2021

August 31, 2021
This story offers a lot to us in the context of our own blinkered ways...
August 26, 2021
I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...
August 25, 2021
These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...
August 24, 2021
Throughout history Christians have used the label of Pharisee as a disparaging or derogatory title...
August 19, 2021
Love and justice are connected in the gospels. Proclaiming love, specifically a universal love of...
August 18, 2021
This definition brings to my mind Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, the economic justice found...
August 17, 2021
Christianity has a long history of harmfully categorizing things of "the flesh” as evil and...
August 12, 2021
That the kind of people we choose to be today will impact the kind of...
August 11, 2021
There are others who no longer believe in Christianity’s high claims, but who still engage...
August 10, 2021
Yet there’s a way for us today, with our focus on establishing justice on Earth...
August 06, 2021
What is bread that is only temporary and what is bread that leads to life...
August 05, 2021
This would make much more sense if we define the bread of life as the...
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...
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