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October 2020

October 28, 2020
That’s what this widow did. She made the life of the magistrate uncomfortable until he...
October 27, 2020
This widow was pleading for equity, what today could be called social justice, and justice...
October 23, 2020
Collective choices create change. None of us can change the world all by ourselves, but...
October 21, 2020
It’s not a gospel of mercy, grace, and forgiveness that releases us from a Divine,...
October 20, 2020
In the story, it was the elite and privileged who felt this disgust and loathing....
October 16, 2020
Seeing the man set free from his internalized oppression, the society around him refuses to...
October 14, 2020
Society finds unity in agreeing on who they choose to be against. Victims of this...
October 13, 2020
This is a gospel story of societal oppression leading a person to believe their oppressors’...
October 09, 2020
The work of justice requires paying attention to how difference is used to justify oppression.
October 07, 2020
In Matthew and the other gospels, Jesus stands in the prophetic lineage of Isaiah, calling...
October 05, 2020
This is a statement where Jesus stands with the more inclusive, progressive Jewish community interpreting...

September 2020

September 25, 2020
Beware when you see those in power using law and order rhetoric used to maintain...
September 23, 2020
Jesus’ solidarity with those on the margins reached a critical breaking point with Jesus’ protest...
September 22, 2020
Jesus here is announcing that God’s just future is decidedly for those the present system...
September 18, 2020
Although everyone was invited to the event in the parable of Matthew 22, the event...
September 16, 2020
Throughout U.S. history, the elites have repeatedly fanned the flames of racially charged bigotry to...
September 15, 2020
I used to interpret this parable differently than I do today. When we read this...
September 11, 2020
The rhetoric and movement of Black Lives Matter is the same preferential option for the...
September 09, 2020
The word preferential denotes a preference. Option denotes a deliberate choice to stand with one...
September 08, 2020
This is the ethic of preference or priority we see in the passage above from...
September 03, 2020
There is enough manna for everyone. It belongs to all of us, as a gift....
September 02, 2020
Our hope for the future is in our ability to cooperate with one another to...

August 2020

August 31, 2020
Though oppressors often claim “God is on our side,” the God of this Genesis story...
August 27, 2020
Each day, with the choices we make, we are shaping the kind of earth we...
August 26, 2020
Today we are still called not to be passive in regards to the injustice, oppression,...
August 25, 2020
Jesus stood in the Hebrew prophetic justice tradtion: that tradition and hope was grounded here...
August 21, 2020
Faith in Jesus that is not aligned with social justice in its many expressions or...
August 19, 2020
Not only does this definition fit Jesus and how he related to marginalized people in...
August 17, 2020
What does it mean for those who claim to be followers of Jesus to lose...
August 14, 2020
The story calls us to begin by identifying our oppressive political, economic, and religious systems...
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