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September 11, 2020
Not Everyone Is In Need (Part 3 of 3)
The rhetoric and movement of Black Lives Matter is the same preferential option for the...
September 09, 2020
Not Everyone Is In Need (Part 2 of 3)
The word preferential denotes a preference. Option denotes a deliberate choice to stand with one...
September 08, 2020
Not Everyone Is In Need (Part 1 of 3)
This is the ethic of preference or priority we see in the passage above from...
September 03, 2020
Enough for Us All (Part 3 of 3)
There is enough manna for everyone. It belongs to all of us, as a gift....
September 02, 2020
Enough for Us All (Part 2 of 3)
Our hope for the future is in our ability to cooperate with one another to...
August 2020
August 31, 2020
Enough for Us All (Part 1 of 3)
Though oppressors often claim “God is on our side,” the God of this Genesis story...
August 27, 2020
A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 3 of 3)
Each day, with the choices we make, we are shaping the kind of earth we...
August 26, 2020
A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 2 of 3)
Today we are still called not to be passive in regards to the injustice, oppression,...
August 25, 2020
A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 1 of 3)
Jesus stood in the Hebrew prophetic justice tradtion: that tradition and hope was grounded here...
August 21, 2020
Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 3 of 3)
Faith in Jesus that is not aligned with social justice in its many expressions or...
August 19, 2020
Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 2 of 3)
Not only does this definition fit Jesus and how he related to marginalized people in...
August 17, 2020
Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 1 of 3)
What does it mean for those who claim to be followers of Jesus to lose...
August 14, 2020
Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 3 of 3)
The story calls us to begin by identifying our oppressive political, economic, and religious systems...
August 12, 2020
Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 2 of 3)
As Jesus followers today, the gospel we tell must locate Jesus among our oppressed siblings,...
August 11, 2020
Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 1 of 3)
Their focus was very much on this present world, and the gospels showed a Jesus...
August 07, 2020
The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 3 of 3)
Life can also conquer death today if we will choose it. Our political, economic, and...
August 05, 2020
The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 2 of 3)
The resurrection is not a scientific declaration of a person coming back to life. It’s...
August 03, 2020
The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 1 of 3)
I don’t believe that triumph is automatic. We have to choose life and life-giving ways...
July 2020
July 30, 2020
Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 3 of 3)
When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of...
July 29, 2020
Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 2 of 3)
As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences...
July 28, 2020
Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 1 of 3)
The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values...
July 23, 2020
Systems of Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the...
July 22, 2020
Systems of Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)
This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the...
July 21, 2020
Systems of Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)
In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic...
July 16, 2020
Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 3 of 3)
I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus...
July 15, 2020
Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 2 of 3)
"This passage is also the very passage Jesus quoted as he demonstrated against his own...
July 13, 2020
Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 1 of 3)
So the passage in Matthew isn’t about using the term “fool,” but about mislabelling as...
July 09, 2020
More Effective Ways To Care (Part 3 of 3)
Personally and systemically, our hope as a species is in discovering more effective ways of...
July 08, 2020
More Effective Ways To Care (Part 2 of 3)
In the gospels, we see a vision of God’s just future where human communities are...
July 06, 2020
More Effective Ways To Care (Part 1 of 3)
What does it look like for Jesus followers to create ways of organizing communities that...
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