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December 2025

December 19, 2025
John's repentance was to manifest itself in equitable economic practices and the compassionate treatment of...
December 18, 2025
In these stories, “the wilderness” symbolizes the edges of society. It represents those places far...
December 17, 2025
A reliable litmus test for the gospel is whether it is truly good news to...
December 16, 2025
Reparing our moral fabric is about preparing a societal landscape where love, justice, and peace...
December 16, 2025
It was rooted in a call to repentance, and the repentance he demanded was profoundly...
December 02, 2025
This story reminds us of what Advent is about. A path that moves us further...

November 2025

November 28, 2025
Advent calls us to participate in the beginning of a whole new world where injustice...
November 26, 2025
Advent reminds us that if we don’t share the social location of the marginalized, we’re...
November 25, 2025
This Advent passage concerns transitioning away from a world imagined as a predatory beast to...
November 20, 2025
Death, even just one more death, doesn't overcome death. Only life nonviolently triumphs over violence...
November 19, 2025
Crucifixion was reserved enemies of the state or those who threatened imperial order, not ordinary...
November 18, 2025
Political execution pivots us from a transaction in cosmic accounting far away to our own...
November 13, 2025
Similar to the 1st Century, change requires a profound shift away from a system of...
November 12, 2025
The widening gap in our one-sided system grows wealth exponentially for a few, divorced from...
November 11, 2025
The unsustanability of their economic system had reached a breaking point where the masses could...
November 06, 2025
A belief in an afterlife shouldn't overshadow the work of shaping our world into a...
November 05, 2025
Being salt and light here and now means being a conduit of the gospels core...
November 04, 2025
The contrast between focusing on the living rather than on death and dying could have...

October 2025

October 30, 2025
Zacchaeus demonstrates that economic justice is central to spiritual renewal, addressing income inequality is a...
October 29, 2025
Ultimately, this social vision is a direct challenge to the status quo. It is good...
October 28, 2025
Luke’s beatitudes are another example of the social revolution toward the common good at the...
October 23, 2025
Our reading a humble tax collector embracing the call for wealth redistribution and poverty elimination,...
October 22, 2025
Interpreting one's religion through a lens of love while failing to confront systems of inequity...
October 21, 2025
Anyone who cares about ending violence, including anit-Jewish violence, should reject using the label of...
October 16, 2025
Change is slow, but it is still within reach—if we keep pushing, if we continue,...
October 15, 2025
This image is from Jewish apocalyptic literature during a time when the people were once...
October 14, 2025
When we see injustice, we can either go and put it right or, with persistence,...
October 09, 2025
The story of the ten lepers communicates a similar lesson as the good Samaritan and...
October 08, 2025
Anti-Immigration sentiments of certain Christians stand stark contrast to the gospel mandate, "I was a...
October 07, 2025
This all stands in stark contrast to the xenophobia so many in our American society...
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