This prioritizes the oppressor’s or abuser’s need for redemption over and above the rights of those being harmed, included in losing their most basic right: to simply exist and live. Read more
This prioritizes the oppressor’s or abuser’s need for redemption over and above the rights of those being harmed, included in losing their most basic right: to simply exist and live. Read more
Our reading has a history of justifying death or abuse for those in marginalized social locations or in predatory personal relationships. Read more
You can’t love others and not care about being socially engaged in the areas they suffer from the way our society is shaped. Read more
It doesn’t matter which of these ditches we fall into. Our beliefs should make us a more socially engaged in relation to our world today. Read more
We must begin with honesty about how either of these two focuses can divert our attention from being socially engaged. Read more
It’s not that simple when our stories offer two different options. We have to take some personal responsibility. We have to actually decide. Read more
For the prophets, the concern is justice. It’s within this Hebrew, prophetic justice tradition that the synoptic Jesus stands. In John's version of this story, this tradition is wholly erased. Read more
This detail magnifies one important differences in John. Narrative location, motives behind the action, and intended outcome, matter. Read more
This may seem to be a subtle interpretive difference, but it makes all the difference in the world in how we respond to abuse and suffering. Read more
Too often, the cross we are to counseled to “bear” is defined as an injustice itself. This is not what the cross stood for in the synoptic gospels. Read more
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