We read this story too individualistically in our culture today. Societal, systemic change begins with understanding. Read more
We read this story too individualistically in our culture today. Societal, systemic change begins with understanding. Read more
The greater the wealth disparities within economic systems, the stronger the critique for those who have the heart to listen and understand. Read more
It’s not just okay but it’s actually right for us to be angry when we see vulnerable people and communities being harmed. Read more
Where we read of the creation of day and night: not a hard binary but two ends of spectrum that can produce beautiful sunrises, sunsets, dawns, evenings, and twilights. These states are neither day nor night alone but somewhere on a spectrum between. Read more
Christians today do a great deal of harm by shallowly thinking Jesus was against all divorce, especially divorce as practiced in our society, rather than being opposed to a specific kind of divorce practiced in his society. Read more
Something is good, remember, based on the kind of fruit it produces, whether it is life-giving or death-dealing. And that fruit is either enough of an argument in its favor, or a sign of something it’s time for us to leave behind. Read more
The language that the gospels used here would not have conjured a vision of post-mortem, eternal torment for the original Jewish audience. Read more
There is an alternative, especially for those attracted to the ethical teachings of Jesus but who rightly have no tolerance for the evangelical Christian belief in a literal, eternally burning hell. Read more
This story is, on the other hand, encouraging Jesus' followers to resist as he did flipping tables in the temple courtyard, even though it resulted in the state violence of a cross. Read more
If you believe that acceptance of suffering gives life, then your resources for confronting perpetrators of violence and abuse will be numbed. Read more
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