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January 2025

January 31, 2025

Rejecting the Rage Against Justice and Equity

Today we need to pay attention to responses that answer justice movements with rage and...

February 2023

February 21, 2023

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 1 of 3)

Sacrificing our humanity for bread, contrasted with those things that are life-giving in the long...

March 2022

March 02, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)

The means by which we obtain our bread—whether those means are just, life-giving, and sustainable—matters...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 3 of 3)

I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...

August 25, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 2 of 3)

These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...

August 24, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 1 of 3)

Throughout history Christians have used the label of Pharisee as a disparaging or derogatory title...

August 06, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 3 of 3)

What is bread that is only temporary and what is bread that leads to life...

August 05, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 2 of 3)

This would make much more sense if we define the bread of life as the...

August 04, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 1 of 3)

Can we reclaim this passage in our lectionary reading for this week?

June 2021

June 17, 2021

Peace, Be Still (Part 3 of 3)

We don’t need a peace that is only a passive lull in our struggle for...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

A Better Way to Tell Our Stories (Part 3 of 3)

Do we find teachings lifted up in the Jesus story that aid our work of...

May 26, 2021

A Better Way to Tell Our Stories (Part 2 of 3)

Classifying our flesh, bodies, and material world or nature as, at best, unimportant or disposable...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

An Unjust Judge (Part 3 of 3)

That’s why I don’t interpret this story to be solely about prayer. That would leave...

October 21, 2020

The Social Location of Your Christianity Matters (Part 2 of 3)

It’s not a gospel of mercy, grace, and forgiveness that releases us from a Divine,...

August 2020

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 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...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

A Gospel for the Earth (Part 3 of 3)

What would happen if Christians stopped believing that Jesus’s way is impractical, naïve, insufficient, or...

May 06, 2020

A Gospel for the Earth (Part 2 of 3)

This says to me that it is better to deal with things now, at this...

May 04, 2020

A Gospel for the Earth (Part 1 of 3)

If ever there were a warning for privileged elites to make restitution to the masses...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

Our Hope Depends on Compassion

And this is precisely why our future can be different than our present. We can...

March 23, 2020

When Economic Reversal Catches the Elite by Surprise

This wakefulness means possessing a continuing awareness of issues related to marginalized people and their...

March 16, 2020

Shaping a New World at the End of Our Present System

Will we be a source of genuine light in our world’s oppression and exploitation, or...

March 06, 2020

When Change Feels Too Risky

Are you seeing calls for societal change threatening the status quo today? Are you seeing...

March 04, 2020

When Our Differences Threaten to Make Our Justice Work Fragmented

Ignorance is inevitable: our experiences are not all the same. But division is optional. Each...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Zacchaeus and Christian Support of Destructive Administrations

“What is needed for empowered, privileged Christians who support a corrupt administration today to follow...