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August 2020

August 12, 2020
As Jesus followers today, the gospel we tell must locate Jesus among our oppressed siblings,...
August 11, 2020
Their focus was very much on this present world, and the gospels showed a Jesus...
August 07, 2020
Life can also conquer death today if we will choose it. Our political, economic, and...
August 05, 2020
The resurrection is not a scientific declaration of a person coming back to life. It’s...
August 03, 2020
I don’t believe that triumph is automatic. We have to choose life and life-giving ways...

July 2020

July 30, 2020
When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of...
July 29, 2020
As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences...
July 28, 2020
The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values...
July 23, 2020
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the...
July 22, 2020
This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the...
July 21, 2020
In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic...
July 16, 2020
I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus...
July 15, 2020
"This passage is also the very passage Jesus quoted as he demonstrated against his own...
July 13, 2020
So the passage in Matthew isn’t about using the term “fool,” but about mislabelling as...
July 09, 2020
Personally and systemically, our hope as a species is in discovering more effective ways of...
July 08, 2020
In the gospels, we see a vision of God’s just future where human communities are...
July 06, 2020
What does it look like for Jesus followers to create ways of organizing communities that...
July 02, 2020
“Every generation faces these inflexible alternatives, transformation or eventual implosion—these are the inflexible alternatives before...
July 01, 2020
"He was not rejected by the people. He was silenced by the powerful and elite...

June 2020

June 30, 2020
Today’s climate for those deemed essential workers during our present pandemic is similar. As the...
June 19, 2020
Peace through a militarized quelling of unrest is not peace, but a lull waiting for...
June 17, 2020
This is where the path of systemic injustice pressed down too long by militarized force...
June 15, 2020
What we have here is two paths toward peace. One was enforced by militarized power...
June 10, 2020
Glaude ends the interview with the call to both imagine a different world and voice...
June 08, 2020
Will those in our future look back at us today and say, “If you, even...
June 03, 2020
Here are a few reasons why I am convinced that White Christians should be standing...

May 2020

May 27, 2020
Our passage this week and this pandemic make me think of my working-class Appalachian friends,...
May 26, 2020
That’s what we need right now. That’s the kind of world I want to be...
May 22, 2020
It cannot be stated enough that although we are all affected by this pandemic we...
May 20, 2020
Blessed are the ones modeling a compassionate new world. Blessed are the ones shaping a...
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