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November 2024

November 06, 2024
“Devoted to God” meant devoted to the State, and it didn’t trickle down to the...
November 05, 2024
Our reading this week contains one of the most misunderstood stories in Mark’s gospel. The...

October 2024

October 31, 2024
This Tuesday, love your neighbor by getting out there and voting for love and justice....
October 30, 2024
In this life, the closest we will ever get to loving God is how we...
October 29, 2024
So closely is love connected to justice that it impossible to claim you even have...
October 24, 2024
Proximity doesn’t guarantee change. But it does provide the opportunity for change, through crossing lines...
October 23, 2024
I can’t help but see a critique of Christian nationalism in the contrast between James,...
October 22, 2024
The Bartimaeus story has social, political, and economic dimensions that are rarely touched on in...
October 17, 2024
Standing up for love and justice sometimes involves drinking the same cup and baptism. In...
October 16, 2024
In Mark, these stories aren't about a Jesus doing things for or instead of his...
October 15, 2024
Elements that Christianity has typically viewed through the lens of substitution, Mark's gospel frames in...
October 10, 2024
No one can serve two masters. You will hate the one and love the other....
October 09, 2024
The human dilemma in regards to most everything including money is, in large part, that...
October 08, 2024
This week’s reading gets to the heart of one of the central teachings of the...
October 03, 2024
Justice and that which was life-giving were the concerns in our reading. That which is...
October 02, 2024
The culture wherein these ancient divorce laws were written was predominantly heterosexist and deeply patriarchal.
October 01, 2024
These laws written about divorce were not written with the same cultural practices and assumptions...

September 2024

September 26, 2024
We are called to affect and transform our world into a safe, compassionate, just home...
September 25, 2024
A central theme of our reading this week is what Liberation Theologians call a preferential...
September 24, 2024
Love, inclusivity, justice doesn’t need everyone to be the same in every detail. Inclusivity is...
September 20, 2024
Or are we flipping this script and using this teachings on being servants in ways...
September 18, 2024
It wasn't long before these words on being servants intended to correct those seeking status...
September 17, 2024
Our reading turns hierarchical ways of structuring our communities upside down, defining leaders as being...
September 12, 2024
Don’t passively endure suffering. Don’t give in when others try to persuade us to patiently...
September 11, 2024
Passively enduring suffering doesn’t give life. Life is found in our active resistance and struggle...
September 10, 2024
Whatever we make of the claim of messiah today, we must be intentional about holding...
September 05, 2024
Today we need more than magical cures that enable people to do better in our...
September 04, 2024
Intersectionality is such a rich lens through which to relate to this Jesus story as...
September 03, 2024
The first story is of a Greek woman who approaches Jesus on behalf of her...

August 2024

August 29, 2024
Consent is an egalitarian discussion. It doesn’t privilege any gender above another, or penalize one...
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