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October 2026

October 07, 2026

Credo: A Story of God Told with the Creed of Christians

About 10 years ago, I began to imagine a personal "Credo" that would be faithful...

February 2025

February 13, 2025

Richard A. Horsley Sees Jesus in the Context of Empire

Jesus was a prophet of the renewal of Israel in opposition to Israel’s Roman occupiers...

March 2023

March 28, 2023

“Jesus Wept.” Don’t Take the Humanity out of This Human Experience

When I was a child, Lent for me was a time to meditate on Jesus’...

March 14, 2023

Holy Thursday Theology and the Scientific Quest for Jesus in History

And some thoughts for Eucharistic Revival Two books by William R. Herzog II have been...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

‘Render to Caesar’ – or Not. The Speech of Oppressed People

One of the charges against Jesus during his trial is that he forbade payment of...

February 20, 2023

Personal Morality: Jesus’ Village Politics Can’t be Without It

These essays on William R. Herzog’s Jesus Justice and the Reign of God have delved...

February 03, 2023

Dangerous Thoughts: Three Parables in Dissembling Villager Speak

For some time I’ve been working with the conviction that many, if not most, of...

January 2023

January 28, 2023

Jesus Reinterprets the Sabbath and Subverts the Social Order

Many times in the Gospels and, presumably, many times in historical reality Jesus gets in...

January 20, 2023

The Tradition of the Elders or the Mercy of God

In a section of Mark’s Gospel that my Bible calls “The Tradition of the Elders,”...

January 12, 2023

A Rich Man Follows All the Old Rules. Or Does He?

A rich man asks Jesus how to inherit eternal life. It would seem to be...

December 2022

December 20, 2022

The Temple, Jesus, and the Little Traditions of Village Life

“Destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in three days.” (John 2:19) Could Jesus,...

December 13, 2022

Jesus Heals a Paralytic and Opens a Temple-Free Zone of Grace

The Healing of the Paralytic (Gospel of Mark 2:1-12) is Jesus’ challenge to the oppressive...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Context Group Continues the Long History of Witnessing to Jesus

A group of scholars called the Context Group has added to the number of people having their...

November 22, 2022

The Historical Jesus and the Transcendent God in the Work of William Herzog

William T. Herzog’s book Parables as Subversive Speech uses historical-critical methods to unveil a “historical...

November 19, 2022

Parables as Subversive Speech—the Conclusion—and a More Incarnational Jesus

In Parables as Subversive Speech William Herzog takes us back to the time and place...

November 12, 2022

A Dishonest Steward uses the Weapons of the Weak

“… and they all lived happily, for a while, after.” That’s how Jesus could have...

November 04, 2022

Unjust Judge Out-Shamed by Persistent Widow – a Parable

Jesus told a parable in which a widow crosses the boundaries of social acceptability and...

October 2022

October 31, 2022

The Friend at Midnight – Shameless, but in a Good Way

"Translator, traitor." The saying sounds better in Italian than in English, but it applies to...

October 28, 2022

Publican and Pharisee: A Parable of Two Public Sinners

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican occurs only in the Gospel of Luke....

October 18, 2022

The Horrifying – or Tragic – Parable of the Talents

I always pitied the third servant in the Parable of the Talents, the one who...

October 15, 2022

The Unmerciful Servant Parable Trashes Messianic Hopes

The crowd on Palm Sunday hailed Jesus as the new King David. Jesus twice (at...

October 11, 2022

The Rich Man and Lazarus, or an Oppressor who Won’t be Taught

In the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Jesus, the pedagogue of the oppressed,...

October 07, 2022

The Parable of the Wicked Tenants and the Wickeder Landlord

Sometimes in real life it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys....

October 02, 2022

Laborers in the Vineyard: A Reading that Doesn’t Blame the Victims

Reading Parables as Subversive Speech, I’m letting William Herzog challenge my older reading of many...

September 2022

September 19, 2022

Paulo Freire, the “Pedagogue of the Oppressed”: Is This a Good Fit for Jesus?

Paulo Freire was a Brazilian activist and academic. He taught, and led others to teach,...

September 09, 2022

William Herzog Reads Jesus’ Parables, Brings them Down to Earth

William R. Herzog II says he wrote a book about Jesus’ parables after puzzling about...

December 2021

December 14, 2021

Does Copernicus Have to be Wrong? Or, How the Bible Likes Modern Science

What Nicolai Copernicus said is right. Earth revolves around the Sun, along with all the...

January 2020

January 13, 2020

The Loneliest Woman in the Bible

An article in AARP Magazine has me thinking about loneliness in our lives and lonely...

January 11, 2020

Baptized into Death – Circumcision wasn’t Radical Enough for Jesus.

Some of Jesus’ first followers had trouble with Jesus’ baptism by John. If anything, Jesus...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

CRUCIFY HIM! — What the Jews Did or Didn’t Do on Good Friday

On Good Friday I stood with the congregation in church playing my part in the...

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