Racial Justice

January 2023

January 20, 2023
Healing justice can still liberate today as it did in some of our most sacred,...
January 18, 2023
This impacts how we talk about the Bible’s use of light and darkness, too. We...

July 2022

July 14, 2022
Adults a generation from now will value those different from them according to the way...

May 2022

May 12, 2022
When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...

March 2022

March 24, 2022
As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...
March 23, 2022
"Sinner" was the pejorative label that those at the center of Jesus society used to...
March 22, 2022
This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...

January 2022

January 20, 2022
There are so many of us today who benefit from the violence of our present...
January 19, 2022
Of all the passages in the Hebrew scriptures that the author of Luke could have...

October 2021

October 15, 2021
If we take seriously Jesus’ call for no more lords, and we work for a...
October 14, 2021
I appreciate the emphasis on not encouraging lordship, and we must also be honest that...
October 13, 2021
Crucifixion was not a passive acceptance of abuse and injustice. It was Rome’s punishment for...

September 2021

September 02, 2021
We can choose in these moments, not to get defensive, but to apologize when our...
September 01, 2021
The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

August 2021

August 26, 2021
I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...
August 25, 2021
These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...
August 24, 2021
Throughout history Christians have used the label of Pharisee as a disparaging or derogatory title...

June 2021

June 24, 2021
In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...
June 17, 2021
We don’t need a peace that is only a passive lull in our struggle for...
June 04, 2021
Today our strong man could be capitalism, White supremacy, Christian nationalism, cisheterosexism, and more. All...

May 2021

May 13, 2021
If we find ourselves opposed by the marginalized because we are actually standing between them...

April 2021

April 30, 2021
I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....
April 21, 2021
This story that so many White Christians hold dear puts God on the side of...

March 2021

March 17, 2021
"The central image of Christ on the cross as the savior of the world communicates...
March 12, 2021
When public consciousness is raised, change isn’t very far behind, and change is what those...
March 10, 2021
It’s about them coopting the darkness, which is not inherently evil, and using the darkness...
March 09, 2021
“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for...

November 2020

November 20, 2020
These narratives speak of a God who, rather than demanding someone’s sacrifice, stands in solidarity...
November 18, 2020
Both narratives of sacrifice and narratives of anti-sacrifice are found in the sacred texts, and...
November 16, 2020
The unity that comes through sacrificing a common enemy is temporary and must be continually...
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