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
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
Considering the ethics and values within the Jesus story, loving Jesus means actually loving the things he taught and following them. Read more
For the original audiences of the synoptics, “advocate” would have called to mind a deep need of advocacy socially, politically, and economically. Read more
I grew up hearing Christians interpret the Advocate as an intermediary interposing between sinful humans and a holy God. Today, I reject that. Read more
After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately to God being gender-less. Mama God imagery helps. Read more
The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift up those our present system pushes to the edges of our communities. Read more
Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal that makes more sense to me is not exclusivity but to collect the good in each. Read more
It is important to remember that this abundant living doesn’t come at the expense of others. Life isn’t “life” for any of us unless it is life for us all. Read more
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