Inclusion

October 2023

October 12, 2023
All are invited, and not all are welcome. To be welcome at the table, you...
October 11, 2023
This banquet parable draws our attention to those in our society who are marginalized, excluded,...
October 10, 2023
The parable of this wedding banquet is not about heaven, but a call to return...

August 2023

August 17, 2023
She also uses his language against him to show him how blinkered his understanding is.
August 16, 2023
This sounds a lot like the way all of us grow and learn: through experience...
August 15, 2023
This is important to name because using this term as a pejorative slur is historically...

May 2023

May 04, 2023
After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately...
May 03, 2023
The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift...
May 02, 2023
Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal...

August 2022

August 26, 2022
To the degree that our communities are accessible to people whose bodies are different or...
August 25, 2022
These three themes . . . illustrate the theological obstacles encountered by people with disabilities...
August 23, 2022
This week's story involves humility and the inclusion of the marginalized, specifically people living in...

May 2021

May 06, 2021
We can explore ways that understanding Universal love that lead us, not to private, assured...
May 05, 2021
Love that only leaves the privileged in a conscience-appeased state so they can sleep better...
May 04, 2021
There is a way to teach God’s love that is complicit in oppression and harmful...

April 2021

April 30, 2021
I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....
April 29, 2021
Although the passage we began with focuses on bearing fruit rather than being a dead...
April 28, 2021
After almost two centuries of Christian patriarchy gendering God as exclusively male, we must recognize...
April 22, 2021
When we choose to make justice ultimately win, not just in isolated occurrences but systemically,...
April 21, 2021
This story that so many White Christians hold dear puts God on the side of...
April 20, 2021
Even today when you do a simple image search for Jesus, you’ll get ten or...
April 15, 2021
It’s a story that is intended to awaken in us the choice to shape a...
April 14, 2021
The kind of repentance that leads to that kind of forgiveness, then, is a social...
April 12, 2021
The gospels’ post resurrection appearance stories follow a familiar pattern that meets the expectations of...
April 08, 2021
We must be careful not to spiritualize these elements. What is does concrete good news...
April 07, 2021
"I understand this is a subtle difference in interpretation but it creates a huge difference...
April 06, 2021
The Jesus of John’s story doesn’t do things instead of us, as our substitute so...
April 01, 2021
God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...
April 01, 2021
The book of Acts offers just one example of this alternative focus and emphasis; the...

March 2021

March 30, 2021
The good news was not that Jesus died, or even that he died for you....
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