Just because you’re being criticized doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the right track, and being praised doesn’t necessarily mean you are on the wrong path. Read more
Just because you’re being criticized doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the right track, and being praised doesn’t necessarily mean you are on the wrong path. Read more
This story places people before profit—especially people who are being harmed, marginalized, excluded, and killed. Read more
In several Hebrew scriptures, fishing for people was about hooking or catching a certain kind of person, a powerful and unjust person, and removing them from their position of power from where they were wielding harm. Read more
This interpretation has made Christian missionary efforts vulnerable to being coopted by European and later American colonial, capitalist abuses and the genocide of Indigenous people. Read more
We don’t have to disparage Jewish people, Jewish wisdom, or Judaism to value Jesus and his ethical teachings. Read more
As the Jesus community became primarily Gentile, it added anti-Jewish elements to our sacred stories, subtly painting Jewish people in those stories and even Jesus himself as anti-Jewish. Read more
Christians have little credibility critiquing other groups when there is so much housekeeping that needs to be done inside Christianity. Read more
There are so many of us today who benefit from the violence of our present system. Are we allowing passages like this one in Luke to confront us? Read more
Of all the passages in the Hebrew scriptures that the author of Luke could have chosen to summarize or characterize Jesus life and mission, these two passages are saturated with the theme of liberation for the oppressed. Read more
This choice not only reveals a passion for those being marginalized in any system, but also points us to how change happens. Change happens from the grassroots or bottom up and from the margins or edges of our societies inward. Read more
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