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August 2023

August 08, 2023

Axios News, Inflation, Justice, and Young Workers in Asia

The news source Axios reports on young workers in Asia. They seem to be turning...

April 2023

April 03, 2023

Catholic Church Repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery

On Thursday, March 30, the Church formally rejected the Doctrine of Discovery. I learned about...

March 2023

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 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 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,...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

The Year of the Lord’s favor: What Happened to it after Jesus?

The year of the Lord’s favor – that’s what Luke says Jesus preached in Nazareth...

July 10, 2022

Debt and Debt Forgiveness from Ancient Sumer to Jesus

Debt is a major part of economic behavior in the modern world. That hardly distinguishes...

March 2022

March 14, 2022

The Eye of a needle and the Man who would Earn Eternal Life

Two individuals ask Jesus the same question. Two straightforward answers are given, but they are...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

Righteousness – In Luke It’s More than Being on the Right Side

A massacre in the Temple and a fatal tower collapse – stories, or maybe rumors....

February 15, 2022

A Literal Cross Waiting for Those who Join Jesus’ Crew

A quote from William Stringfellow, Dissenter in a Great Society illustrates how hard it is...

February 07, 2022

The Rich Fool and the Rent We Pay for Our Place on Earth

We remember Jesus’ words near the beginning of Chapter 12 in Luke’s Gospel: “Do not...

February 01, 2022

While Debt Sinks Nations, Some Hear Jesus’ Call for Jubilee

At Mass on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, I paid special attention to the...

January 2022

January 23, 2022

Temptations in the Desert –the End of Luke’s (Second?) ‘Introduction’

Sixth in a series on social justice in the Gospel of Luke. It’s standard to...

January 18, 2022

While Debt Sinks Nations, Some Hear Jesus’ Call for Jubilee

Last Sunday, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, I paid special attention to the reading...

January 11, 2022

Poverty and Power – Messiah’s Story Has Two Visible Contexts

I suppose I ought to say that the two contexts of Jesus’ ministry on earth...

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