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Keeping the Word : Living the Word : Changing the World

Keeping the Word Luke 8:15 "Blessed are they who have kept the word with a...

August 2026

August 23, 2026

The Marginalized and Oppressed: Who Do You Say That I Am?

Who Do You Say That I Am? - Matthew 16:13-20 Jesus asks his disciples who...

August 08, 2026

The Fourth Watch: Jesus, the Storm, Injustice & Drowning

Drowning in the Fourth Watch He fed everybody on the hillside. Then he put his...

June 2026

June 27, 2026

Cold Water: A Sermon on Matthew 10:37-42

The Cold Water Passage In Matthew 10:37-42, Jesus tells his apostles that no love can...

May 2026

May 09, 2026

Orphans : The Spirit Will Never Leave Us

A reflection on John 14:15-21 The Fear of Being Orphaned There is a particular kind...

March 2026

March 21, 2026

Untie Him: Lazarus and the Work of Liberation

Lazarus and the Anatomy of a Miracle In the 11th Chapter of the Gospel of...

February 2026

February 22, 2026

Bread Alone?

Bread Alone? Matthew 4:1–11 The desert was quiet in a way that presses against your...

February 18, 2026

Ash Wednesday: The Call of the Dust

The Weight of Ash Wednesday Beloved, today we receive ashes upon our foreheads, not as...

February 14, 2026

Deadly Hearts : On Matthew 5:21-22

"You've been taught since childhood: don't murder, and murderers will face the courts. But I'm...

January 2026

January 31, 2026

The Beatitudes: A Revolution in Every Generation

The Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-12a The Empire and the Word When Jesus saw the crowds, he...

January 24, 2026

Alex Pretti of Minnesota: Prophet of a New World

Alex Pretti: The Prophet Whose Life Declared a New World When John the Baptist stood...

November 2025

November 02, 2025

Why Abolitionists Must Stand for Everyone on Death Row

No Exceptions: Abolitionists Must Stand for Everyone Abolitionists (the abolitionist movement) hemorrhages its power...

October 2025

October 04, 2025

The Rhythm of Faith: The Explosion of the Realm of God

The Realm of God in Motion: The Rhythm of Faith Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time...

October 03, 2025

St. Esther Brown: The Greatest Death Penalty Abolitionist

Some lives are ordinary. Some lives are remarkable. Some lives are holy. The Life of...

September 2025

September 22, 2025

Anthony Boyd, Alabama & Execution: Notes on a Revolutionary

Anthony Boyd & The Death Penalty: The Last Revolutionary September 22, 2025 If you are...

September 20, 2025

Mammon or God: Empire or the Cross: Trump or Humanity

Mammon or God Luke 16:10–13 September 21, 2025Homily at St. Oscar Romero Old Catholic ChurchJesus...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

angels amongst us?

angels amongst us? When I was an early teenager, I worked across the...

August 07, 2020

Leaving Dallas.

Leaving Dallas. Life changes. Rapid developments demand rapid responses. Such is how we...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

The Good Samaritan: For Our Moment

The Good Samaritan: For Our Moment On one occasion a theologian stood up...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

The Body: Words from the Movement

*Delivered at Justice for All! : In Memory of Carlos High Sr. in Grand...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

My Confession: I’m an Evangelical

"I believe Jesus rose from the dead and inhabits my being right now." When...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

The Pilgrimage: A Short Story of a Long 200 mile Journey // June 14

Sleeping is not easy when you are not on a bed. We take our rest...

February 2014

February 16, 2014

The Withered Hand, The Undivided Heart and The Undistracted Church

There was a man with a withered hand. Jesus approached the man with the...