We already have a mandate in place: love your neighbor as yourself. This mandate requires us to act not only for our own best interests but also for the best interests of others. Read more
We already have a mandate in place: love your neighbor as yourself. This mandate requires us to act not only for our own best interests but also for the best interests of others. Read more
What designates one as a follower of Jesus is not the creeds we mentally assent to, but the kind of life we choose to live, the kind of values we seek to embody, the kind of ethics we endeavor to practice. Read more
We don’t have to disparage any other religion, especially not Judaism, to value the Jesus story. We can and must do better. Read more
This makes me wonder what our baptism-like rituals today are. How do we, too, publicly reject present systems of injustice? Read more
John's baptism invited people to denounce injustice, to cleanse the canvas so to speak for something different, societally, to be born. Read more
The one “in whom I am well pleased” was to be associated with the world of establishing justice on the earth for the marginalized and oppressed. Read more
We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her story, even if it seems “impossible” to patriarchal men. Read more
Joseph is neither centered nor given any voice at all in this story. Let's talk about why this may have been the case originally and also how we can, today, make life giving applications from this that center the voices of women. Read more
The Christmas and childhood narratives of Jesus in the gospels are following an ancient format. Once we identify this we can take away some important applications for us today. Read more
Mary's story, like Jael’s and Judith’s, is much more scandalous. The life growing in here will not prepare for liberation. No, this life will tell the story of the way of liberation itself. Read more
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