Feminism

August 2023

August 16, 2023
This sounds a lot like the way all of us grow and learn: through experience...

July 2023

July 25, 2023
Ironically, kingdom imagery was intended to help the church replace any earthly “king,” and make...

June 2023

June 08, 2023
To Christians today who want to use political power to make it much more dangerous...
June 07, 2023
In this story, women’s reproductive ability is not their choice but governed by men to...
June 06, 2023
What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...

May 2023

May 04, 2023
After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately...
May 03, 2023
The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift...
May 02, 2023
Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal...

April 2023

April 19, 2023
Many who live in or stand in solidarity with oppressed communities have seen how destructive...
April 06, 2023
This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...
April 05, 2023
The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...
April 04, 2023
For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

February 2023

February 22, 2023
"This concept often then turns into unhealthy passive acceptance and unhealthy forms of self-sacrifice having...

January 2023

January 20, 2023
Healing justice can still liberate today as it did in some of our most sacred,...
January 19, 2023
Whatever one decides to call it, we are talking about changes here and now, life-giving...

November 2022

November 04, 2022
Today, we must ask whether our social institutions are being practiced in life-giving or death-dealing...
November 03, 2022
This week’s reading challenges all our institutions, systems, and social structures including marriage.
November 01, 2022
His response in each synoptic gospel is telling: and that response doesn’t seem to be...

October 2022

October 21, 2022
Are we building systems that give life to those who marginalized and vulnerable or are...
October 19, 2022
Though religiously observant in their own eyes, they were still politically complicit in the concrete...
October 18, 2022
This week’s passage is about a lot more than just humility.  It’s also about complicity...

August 2022

August 11, 2022
In the end, it’s about harm reduction and mitigation. It is the reality of this...
August 10, 2022
Our reading this week calls to mind times when we have also had to make...
August 09, 2022
The struggle in the story is with the economic, political, and social harm being committed...

July 2022

July 14, 2022
Adults a generation from now will value those different from them according to the way...
July 13, 2022
This is a strong message and should be weighed carefully by all Christian communities and...
July 12, 2022
Mary chooses to transgress patriarchal, gender binary, gender role assumptions. The story also lauds her...

June 2022

June 02, 2022
People of all genders should be able to see themselves as bearing the image of...
June 01, 2022
This declaration specifically excludes women from the Imago Dei and justifies the exclusion by referring...

May 2022

May 31, 2022
For Boyer, every other detail of the incarnation is incidental, but the fact that Jesus...
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