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September 2024

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...
August 28, 2024
This was not a health practice. Hand washing was being used by those in power...
August 27, 2024
They were just one of many religio-political groups in the first century using morality debates...
August 22, 2024
The future will come. But right now, we are alive. We live in the present....
August 21, 2024
We live in the right now. Love demands that our material existence, injustice, oppression, violence,...
August 20, 2024
This final passage sums up the four messages of John chapter 6. And it is...
August 15, 2024
It would be transformative for privileged sectors of Christianity to listen to Eucharist interpretations from...
August 14, 2024
At these stages, this shared Eucharist meal was still about mutuality and resource-sharing, ensuring that...
August 13, 2024
Our reading this week is the Johannine’s community’s nod to the Eucharist. In John’s gospel,...
August 08, 2024
Bread of life interpretations should move us, not toward the immaterial, but to shape our...
August 07, 2024
Interpretations of the bread of life that have become mere death management are, ironically, death-dealing....
August 06, 2024
Before unpacking the bread of life, responsible commentary on John must repeatedly correct the way...
August 01, 2024
We don't need to be continually spiritualizing the material. Justice and saving bodies is as...

July 2024

July 31, 2024
Spiritualizing the gospel, focusing on saving souls while ignoring suffering bodies, over and over again...
July 30, 2024
One of the unique elements here is a tendency to convert the material into spiritual,...
July 25, 2024
In the synoptics, the story demonstrates the power of love, compassion, and justice in transforming...
July 24, 2024
In the synoptics, this theme describes that which has emerged within our world for impacting...
July 24, 2024
And although all of the gospels may have had a common ancestor in these stories,...
July 19, 2024
Loving others means being concerned with what materially affects them. Not being concerned with matters of...
July 18, 2024
In these stories, we don't encounter a focus on going to heaven when we die,...
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