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June 2024

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...

April 2024

April 30, 2024
It’s much more difficult to preach the gospel that the Jesus in the stories preached,...
April 25, 2024
Today, it is no secret that some forms Christianity are failing to produce the fruit...
April 24, 2024
Textual gymnastics can show almost anything to be Biblical. We have to ask whether our...
April 23, 2024
I would argue that it’s about producing a certain kind of fruit rather than the...
April 18, 2024
The shepherd metaphor then speaks to learning to relate to one another in a way...
April 17, 2024
The shepherd metaphor was used by the Hebrew prophets to speak of social healing where...
April 11, 2024
Whatever we make of the resurrection stories today, resurrection speaks of stories not over yet. ...
April 10, 2024
Resurrection speaks that hate, injustice, bigotry, power and privilege don’t have to have the last...
April 09, 2024
They did not see their salvation as accomplished through the cross. They saw the resurrection...
April 09, 2024
Before he is enthroned in imperial Christian theology, art, and the Christian imagination as imperial...

March 2024

March 28, 2024
The good news is that hate doesn’t have the last word. We can choose love...
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