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October 2025

October 02, 2025
This explains how certain sectors of Christianity have embraced xenophobic, fascist, and authoritarian elements in...
October 01, 2025
One of the dangers of readings like this is the normalization for Christians of evils...

September 2025

September 30, 2025
I find this passage abhorrent. I offer no justification for slavery. Nor will I advocate...
September 25, 2025
The Lazarus story doesn't asks us to care about our experience in an afterlife, but...
September 24, 2025
Details of this story also offer a powerful message about economic justice, critiquing wealth inequality...
September 23, 2025
This story uses the then-popular belief of a great reversal coming to all in the...
September 18, 2025
This was a community built through redistribution of wealth. It was about forging bonds through...
September 17, 2025
The manager is using a weapon of the powerless. They have to find ways of...
September 16, 2025
Spiritualized this story of wealth redistribution givess off the impression that something is intentionally missing.
September 11, 2025
In contrast, the lens of a preferential option for the marginalized provides a nuance that...
September 10, 2025
The lost sheep and the lost coin both challenge the notion that social justice can...
September 09, 2025
It can lead to the marginalization of those who are different all while absolving the...
September 04, 2025
In the linguistic context of the time, "hating one's family" was often used hyperbolically to...
September 03, 2025
These passages describe division, the kind caused when standing with the vulnerable and marginalized and...
September 02, 2025
For LGBTQ youth, acceptance at home is crucial. Rejection has devastating effects on a child's...

August 2025

August 28, 2025
What is really triggering modern-day opponents is how equity and inclusion challenges long-standing imbalances of...
August 27, 2025
For some people, their own moral compass is all they need to navigate life. It's...
August 26, 2025
Humility can be weaponized by oppressors to keep the oppressed submissive. It can also be...
August 21, 2025
Our reading this week is about tension between liberation and the way a religious institution...
August 20, 2025
The Sabbath commandment also had a history in a kind of labor justice. In its...
August 19, 2025
Sabbath is a sacred day of rest and spiritual renewal that is also deeply connected...
August 13, 2025
With hands on the plow, peacemakers are breaking up and preparing our social soil for...
August 13, 2025
Negative peace is created when we prioritize unity over speaking out and taking action for...
August 12, 2025
We cannot build real unity on the denial of justice. Authentic unity emerges not from...
August 07, 2025
That famous moral arc of justice requires deliberate and courageous efforts from those who choose...
August 06, 2025
This is why the poor, the hungry, the mourning are blessed: a community of just...
August 05, 2025
It’s a world where everyone has enough to thrive and no one is hoarding more...
August 01, 2025
Faith traditions, moral philosophies, and humanitarian values all speak to the sacred responsibility that comes...

July 2025

July 31, 2025
The dilemma is that we are each other’s fate. Society can become mutually supportive or...
July 30, 2025
And in the gospel stories, Jesus emerged in Galilee as a prophet of the poor....
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