For many people, this week’s reading brings up painful memories and deep questions about unanswered prayers. Read more
For many people, this week’s reading brings up painful memories and deep questions about unanswered prayers. Read more
Adults a generation from now will value those different from them according to the way their society’s laws socialized them to. Read more
This is a strong message and should be weighed carefully by all Christian communities and institutions that relegate women in ministry to some other designation than those open to men. Read more
Mary chooses to transgress patriarchal, gender binary, gender role assumptions. The story also lauds her as having done a good thing! Read more
Whether we think of political, religious, or social communities, what does it look like for us to lean into boundary-transgressing practices of defining our “neighbor?” Read more
Affirming theologians often use love as the lens through which to interpret and understand their sacred text, while non-affirming theologians use the sacred text (interpreted through their own social location) to define what “love” and “loving” mean. Read more
Given Rabbi Hillel’s influence in 1st Century Judaism, the Hillellian practice of interpreting Torah through love was the Jewish interpretive school being used here. Read more
This calls us to reassess the social waters we swim in. It encourages interdependence rather than independence. Read more
We deeply need to reconnect with the reality that we are part of one another. Either we survive and thrive together, or we don’t survive or thrive. Read more
These itinerant workers were to be characterized by dependence, not independence, connectedness as contrasted with individualism. Read more
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