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August 2019

August 30, 2019
"We must be much more scandalized by the institutional violence that leads to violent rebellion...
August 28, 2019
We must allow the context of this saying to confront us, to inspire us to...
August 26, 2019
We can make a choice to subvert our culture’s tendency to value property over people...
August 23, 2019
We’ve been discussing the importance of listening to those on the margins of society and...
August 21, 2019
But all of this drives home the point. This reformulation is the result of what...
August 19, 2019
We can listen to the most vulnerable. We can hear from their experiences whether or...
August 16, 2019
"Jesus was teaching the rejection of violent responses to this world’s evil. Yet he was...
August 14, 2019
It doesn’t matter the reason for subjugation or marginalization in domination systems. It’s not the...
August 12, 2019
Change doesn’t have to come through such violent upheaval. It could start today. Here. Now....
August 09, 2019
For many, only when they discover for themselves the Jesus in the story from the...
August 07, 2019
I can’t help but notice that history is cyclical. We in our society today may...
August 05, 2019
The Jesus we meet in the Jesus story resonated with the marginalized and oppressed of...
August 02, 2019
Today we live in the wake of these changes. Christianity and its Jesus fell in...

July 2019

July 31, 2019
Let’s lean more deeply into our shared lives. Let’s find ways relevant for our world...
July 29, 2019
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July 26, 2019
Seven years ago I wrote a series on Nonviolence.  Much has changed for me since...
July 24, 2019
In Matthew’s gospel, we read of a societal change that was brewing in Jesus' day:...
July 22, 2019
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July 19, 2019
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July 17, 2019
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July 12, 2019
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July 10, 2019
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July 08, 2019
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July 05, 2019
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July 03, 2019
In both Matthew’s and Luke’s gospels we read this analogy: “Therefore everyone who hears these...
July 01, 2019
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June 2019

June 28, 2019
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June 26, 2019
We need to be honest. There are things in the Sermon on the Mount that...
June 24, 2019
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June 21, 2019
“It’s not enough to simply offer a gospel that only offers divine forgiveness of sins....
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