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July 2024

July 17, 2024
This solidly characterizes both traditions as standing in the long Hebrew prophetic tradition of social...
July 12, 2024
The very first test was one of dependency. How would they respond to one on...
July 11, 2024
Independence, individualism, and a resistance to being told what to do came face to face...
July 10, 2024
This is not a plan of individualism, or a plan of self-reliance or self-sufficiency. This...

June 2024

June 27, 2024
By placing the woman alongside the little girl the story also calls us to reject...
June 27, 2024
The story, at first, pretends to affirm the social assumption that if we practice preferential...
June 26, 2024
In our justice work, understanding our social locations in the society we have created is...
June 20, 2024
Working toward justice continues to mean facing winds and waves from those who benefit from...
June 19, 2024
There will be moments when the winds and waves of opposition to making our world...
June 18, 2024
Mark’s gospel uses multiple boat journeys. Some of these, like the one we are considering...
June 13, 2024
We don’t have to understand how seeds work to plant seeds, we don’t have to...
June 12, 2024
This hope is strikingly focused on changing our world, not escaping it; a just and...
June 11, 2024
This imagery describes a world where everyone has enough to thrive and feels safe. It...
June 06, 2024
These stories should move us to help, not oppose, the social justice work of those...
June 05, 2024
Their tactic is nothing new: Inspire the masses with fear of the very social justice...
June 04, 2024
As complicated as this language is for us today, inspiring fear of social justice efforts...

May 2024

May 30, 2024
These Sabbath stories in Mark call each us to reassess our best practices to make...
May 29, 2024
Our economy depends on a never-ending, always-expanding growth. We cannot always be producing. There must...
May 28, 2024
These were labor justice lessons. Everyone was entitled to time to rest and be restored....
May 23, 2024
These stories define salvation as relating to both one’s spiritual wellbeing and material liberation as...
May 22, 2024
This division between the flesh and the spirit, between the physical, material world and the...
May 21, 2024
If we are going to reunite the material and the spiritual, we need to understand...
May 16, 2024
The Spirit expressed itself in economic justice among them where everyone made sure their neighbor...
May 15, 2024
One of the fruits of the Spirit (to borrow Paul’s language) in the synoptic gospels...
May 14, 2024
This upcoming weekend is Pentecost in the Western Christian calendar. And these passages define that...
May 09, 2024
This combined with the passage in John defines our being sent as to be a...
May 08, 2024
This influence in John is seen when we are focused on heaven while being oblivious...
May 07, 2024
The gospel story is subtly different in the Johannine community’s version and these differences in...
May 02, 2024
As we work toward making our world a safe for everyone, love of neighbor calls...
May 01, 2024
If Christians are going to become peacemakers, we are first going have to learn how...
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