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February 2024

February 06, 2024
In this story, the early followers perceived teachings that would end oppression and establish justice...
February 01, 2024
Evangelical Christianity today needs healing and liberation from possession by White supremacy, Christian nationalism, heteropatriarchy,...

January 2024

January 31, 2024
It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined...
January 30, 2024
It’s easy to read these healing stories supernaturally, but theses stories were originally intended to...
January 25, 2024
This specific in augural exorcism story in Mark's gospel would have been read systematically and...
January 24, 2024
The framing of this first exorcism story gives us a hint that we should interpret...
January 23, 2024
The exorcism stories in the gospels were not written to answer our modern scientific questions....
January 18, 2024
"While it is much easier to preach a gospel that says, 'God loves us,' it...
January 17, 2024
He is not calling his listeners to repent of rebellion against empire or to accept...
January 16, 2024
Unlike the gospel these Roman messengers announced, the gospel Jesus announced was different.
January 11, 2024
Where do we still long for justice? Jacob's ladder reminds us that change is still...
January 10, 2024
These show us what the gospel call was. It was not to simply accept a...
January 09, 2024
It’s not honesty or freedom from deceit as our story subtly (sarcastically) points out here,...
January 04, 2024
As we reflect on Epiphany and the establishment of justice in the themes of Jesus’...
January 03, 2024
The entire Epiphany narrative in Matthew speaks of liberation and justice for those pushed to...
January 02, 2024
In this epiphany story another star (comet) appears. This time not at a caesar’s death...

December 2023

December 21, 2023
This was an Advent of a gospel rooted in the Golden rule, enemy love, nonviolence,...
December 20, 2023
It was an advent of a life-giving system in the here and now as an...
December 19, 2023
If we are going to arrive at life-giving applications of this Advent story for our...
December 14, 2023
As difficult as doing preparation work in the wilderness is at times, there is joy...
December 13, 2023
These are symbols of long standing within the Jewish society at that time. They debated...
December 12, 2023
In the stories, John the Baptist is dramatically associated with these ancient figures, and this...
December 07, 2023
This Advent calls to us to pay attention to what’s happening in our time on...
December 06, 2023
This Advent, it's helpful to remember John’s wilderness baptisms were economic and political as well...
December 05, 2023
This advent narrative element clues us in to the fact that the change will be...

November 2023

November 30, 2023
That hope is grounded in the reality that we can face those challenges together in...
November 29, 2023
Advent would've been a hard sell to say God’s just future had come. They could...
November 28, 2023
The word advent means arrival. In the gospels we hear both the announcement that hope...
November 23, 2023
The difference was not wealth but wealth disparity; not its GDP but how much harm...
November 22, 2023
Pay close attention when certain sectors of Christianity choose to cherry pick and prioritize the...
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