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April 30, 2024
Love and Social Justice, Part 1
It’s much more difficult to preach the gospel that the Jesus in the stories preached,...
April 25, 2024
Different Christianity Different Fruit, Part 3
Today, it is no secret that some forms Christianity are failing to produce the fruit...
April 24, 2024
Different Christianity Different Fruit, Part 2
Textual gymnastics can show almost anything to be Biblical. We have to ask whether our...
April 23, 2024
Different Christianity Different Fruit, Part 1
I would argue that it’s about producing a certain kind of fruit rather than the...
April 18, 2024
The Good Shepherd and a Socially Just World, Part 3
The shepherd metaphor then speaks to learning to relate to one another in a way...
April 17, 2024
The Good Shepherd and a Socially Just World, Part 2
The shepherd metaphor was used by the Hebrew prophets to speak of social healing where...
April 11, 2024
Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 3
Whatever we make of the resurrection stories today, resurrection speaks of stories not over yet. ...
April 10, 2024
Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 2
Resurrection speaks that hate, injustice, bigotry, power and privilege don’t have to have the last...
April 09, 2024
Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 1
They did not see their salvation as accomplished through the cross. They saw the resurrection...
April 09, 2024
The Good Shepherd and a Socially Just World, Part 1
Before he is enthroned in imperial Christian theology, art, and the Christian imagination as imperial...
March 2024
March 28, 2024
Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 3
The good news is that hate doesn’t have the last word. We can choose love...
March 27, 2024
Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 2
Whatever we make of these reports today, the lessons in these stories’ emphasis are not...
March 27, 2024
Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 1
The original good news of the gospel was not that someone had died. It was...
March 14, 2024
The Harmful Myth of Redemptive Death, Part 3
Love can conquer hate, and, in the end, justice, love and life will have the...
March 13, 2024
The Harmful Myth of Redemptive Death, Part 2
This prioritizes the oppressor’s or abuser’s need for redemption over and above the rights of...
March 12, 2024
The Harmful Myth of Redemptive Death, Part 1
Our reading has a history of justifying death or abuse for those in marginalized social...
March 07, 2024
A Socially Engaged Gospel, part 3
You can’t love others and not care about being socially engaged in the areas they...
March 06, 2024
A Socially Engaged Gospel, part 2
It doesn’t matter which of these ditches we fall into. Our beliefs should make us...
March 05, 2024
A Socially Engaged Gospel, part 1
We must begin with honesty about how either of these two focuses can divert our...
February 2024
February 29, 2024
Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 3
It’s not that simple when our stories offer two different options. We have to take...
February 29, 2024
Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 2
For the prophets, the concern is justice. It’s within this Hebrew, prophetic justice tradition that...
February 29, 2024
Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 1
This detail magnifies one important differences in John. Narrative location, motives behind the action, and...
February 22, 2024
Bearing Crosses and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering, Part 3
This may seem to be a subtle interpretive difference, but it makes all the difference...
February 21, 2024
Bearing Crosses and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering, Part 2
Too often, the cross we are to counseled to “bear” is defined as an injustice...
February 20, 2024
Bearing Crosses and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering, Part 1
This is the myth of redemptive suffering: that our suffering can redeem our abusers and...
February 15, 2024
The Power of Our Voices, Part 3
The way of love calls each of us, alongside of others, to use the power...
February 14, 2024
The Power of Our Voices, Part 2
Transfiguration in Mark is placed in connection with two voices that represent liberation and speaking...
February 12, 2024
The Power of Our Voices, Part 1
The language in this story was not tied to escaping our world but to the...
February 08, 2024
A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 3
This story points to a life-giving path that informs us to take up the work...
February 07, 2024
A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 2
He goes on to state the way apocalyptic literature was used in Mark’s culture to...
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