This vision is of a world of social structures rooted in love for all. In the words of Mark’s gospel, when we start with love, a just future “has come near.” Read more
This vision is of a world of social structures rooted in love for all. In the words of Mark’s gospel, when we start with love, a just future “has come near.” Read more
Today, we must hold on to the hope that a different iteration of our world is possible, too. Read more
If Mark could offer good news or "gospel" in the midst of such loss for its intended audience, maybe we can find some here, too. Read more
Lifting up the poor and pulling down the elite is a direct call to reducing societal, potlical and economic inequities. Read more
Luke’s songs of social, political, and economic deliverance for the poor, marginalized, peasants announce that a new social order of justice and abundance as well as surviving and thriving is possible. Read more
Luke’s birth narratives are centered in the social location of the common people rather than that of the elite of the day. Read more
These stories are political. They are rooted in the hunger of an oppressed people for social justice. They are about concrete liberation from injustice, both systemic and private, in the here and now. Read more
Originally, Jewish liberation movements used phrases like this. But we must leave these phrases in their own social context if we are to avoid Christianizing them into the harmful antisemitic beliefs. Read more
Including the Magi in his story about had both international political and religious implications. And Matthew’s audience would have recognized their presence in the story as signaling. Read more
This year, as many of us are facing our own harsh realities, there may have never been a more appropriate time to consider the concrete liberation in the birth narratives of the Advent season. Read more
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