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September 2021

September 01, 2021
The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...
September 22, 2020
Jesus here is announcing that God’s just future is decidedly for those the present system...
September 03, 2020
There is enough manna for everyone. It belongs to all of us, as a gift....
September 02, 2020
Our hope for the future is in our ability to cooperate with one another to...

August 2020

August 31, 2020
Though oppressors often claim “God is on our side,” the God of this Genesis story...
August 27, 2020
Each day, with the choices we make, we are shaping the kind of earth we...
August 26, 2020
Today we are still called not to be passive in regards to the injustice, oppression,...
August 25, 2020
Jesus stood in the Hebrew prophetic justice tradtion: that tradition and hope was grounded here...
August 21, 2020
Faith in Jesus that is not aligned with social justice in its many expressions or...
August 19, 2020
Not only does this definition fit Jesus and how he related to marginalized people in...
August 17, 2020
What does it mean for those who claim to be followers of Jesus to lose...
August 14, 2020
The story calls us to begin by identifying our oppressive political, economic, and religious systems...
August 12, 2020
As Jesus followers today, the gospel we tell must locate Jesus among our oppressed siblings,...
August 11, 2020
Their focus was very much on this present world, and the gospels showed a Jesus...
August 07, 2020
Life can also conquer death today if we will choose it. Our political, economic, and...
August 05, 2020
The resurrection is not a scientific declaration of a person coming back to life. It’s...
August 03, 2020
I don’t believe that triumph is automatic. We have to choose life and life-giving ways...

July 2020

July 30, 2020
When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of...
July 29, 2020
As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences...
July 28, 2020
The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values...
July 23, 2020
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the...
July 22, 2020
This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the...
July 21, 2020
In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic...
July 16, 2020
I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus...
July 15, 2020
"This passage is also the very passage Jesus quoted as he demonstrated against his own...
July 13, 2020
So the passage in Matthew isn’t about using the term “fool,” but about mislabelling as...
July 09, 2020
Personally and systemically, our hope as a species is in discovering more effective ways of...
July 08, 2020
In the gospels, we see a vision of God’s just future where human communities are...
July 06, 2020
What does it look like for Jesus followers to create ways of organizing communities that...
July 02, 2020
“Every generation faces these inflexible alternatives, transformation or eventual implosion—these are the inflexible alternatives before...
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