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August 2024

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,...
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...
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