Can we reclaim this passage in our lectionary reading for this week? Read more
Can we reclaim this passage in our lectionary reading for this week? Read more
Today I belong to a community that’s very different than the one I used to belong to. Some folks from the old days have kept on journeying with me. Some have yet to make that journey, and still others never will; I’ve had to accept that. Read more
In this context, an alternative, life-giving interpretation might be a call to focus on the long game of establishing justice in the earth over the temporary gains of power, privilege or property. Read more
This school of interpretive thought has born deeply destructive fruit and has always been coopted by oppressive powers to create a kind of Christianity that leaves the oppressive systems of the powerful untouched by Christian followers. Read more
Various expressions of Christianity have likewise been complicit in seizing power. Powerful Christians have cooperated with harmful social and political structures. Read more
This social consciousness appears to be part of the fabric of what it meant to follow Jesus early on. Read more
Among the canonical gospels, there are six versions of this story. Resource-sharing was central to the early Jesus movement. Read more
Whether we call it the reign of God or God’s just future or simply a world that is a safe, compassionate, and just home for everyone, working for it is the work I believe Jesus-followers are to be about. Read more
This scene is not about heaven or later, but about what people are experiencing here on earth right now, of an earthly, liberation-centered gospel. Read more
The itinerant liberator image of Jesus that we encounter in Mark raises a question of contrast between many preachers today and the Jesus they claim to be worshiping. Read more
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