What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to harm others politically, economically, or socially? Read more
What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to harm others politically, economically, or socially? Read more
What are some of these commands that Matthew’s Jesus tells us to obey? The lion share of them are found in Jesus’ sermon on the mount. Read more
Change is a two way street, an exchange. Those we meet, share with, and listen to leave us forever changed as well. Read more
We must be honest about how this passage has been coopted by colonialism that has harmed Indigenous populations around the globe. Read more
One way to redeem this passage is to connect it to John 20. To inhale this Spirit means to exhale justice. Read more
We need a holistic interpretation where people’s spiritual wellbeing is connected to their material economic, political, and social wellbeing. Read more
There is a tendency here to devalue the material, concrete, physical realities in which people suffered and offer instead something ethereal. Read more
A unity that walks arm and arm with justice. A unity that’s big enough to wrap its arms around all over varied differences and call them “good.” Read more
I resonate much more with working to make our concrete world, here and now, a safer, more compassionate, just home for everyone. Read more
Our reading this week is John’s version of Jesus’ farewell prayer. This passage deeply influenced Christians during the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. Read more
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