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July 2023

July 12, 2023

Sharing, Part 2 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth

Every member of the community held a mutual commitment, sharing what they could to ensure...

July 11, 2023

Obstruction, Part 1 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth

Of all the temptations that could have been mentioned, the obstruction and deceitfulness of wealth...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

Care, Part 3 of Our Dependence on One Another

And rather than developing stalwart, privatized systems of self-sufficiency, this points toward toward building community...

June 29, 2023

Connected, Part 2 of Our Dependence on One Another

We live in a culture of independence, isolation, and self-sufficiency that ignores the reality that...

June 29, 2023

Dependency, Part 1 of Our Dependence on One Another

It begins with a knock at the door. On the stoop stand two itinerant beggars...

June 22, 2023

Sustainable, Part 3 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

"What does this passage have to say about how sustainable our system today is, both...

June 21, 2023

Gehenna, Part 2 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

This language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context, rather than in a modern Christian...

June 20, 2023

Gehenna, Part 1 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

Let’s try to hear this language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context rather than...

June 15, 2023

A Kingdom, Part 3 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

Whatever we call it, this was about a world that is compassionate, safe, just home...

June 14, 2023

Justice, Part 2 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

The harvest was associated with justice, a vision of a world where no one had...

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...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Choosing the Common Good (Part 3 of 3)

Our doing better is not an act of charity. It’s the work of reclaiming our...

October 26, 2022

Choosing the Common Good (Part 2 of 3)

We must read this week’s story within this context. This backdrop also gives new insights...

October 25, 2022

Choosing the Common Good (Part 1 of 3)

We miss a lot in this story if we don’t understand it in terms of...

October 07, 2022

Trading Individualism for Community (Part 3 of 3)

Those of us from Western cultures have a lot we can learn from cultures that...

September 2022

September 29, 2022

Faith and Political Harm (Part 3 of 3)

These stories cared about the concrete harm being done to the marginalized and exploited. Today,...

September 28, 2022

Faith and Political Harm (Part 2 of 3)

Peasants could not imagine a world without feudalism. We find it difficult to imagine a...

September 27, 2022

Faith and Political Harm (Part 1 of 3)

"To hear this parable, however, we must again remove some of the Christian theological wax...

September 22, 2022

Stories that Shape Us (Part 3 of 3)

It’s much more realistic to focus on the gains and losses we experience in this...

September 21, 2022

Stories that Shape Us (Part 2 of 3)

This is a retributive punishment to satisfy the person inflicting the suffering who feels the...

September 20, 2022

Stories that Shape Us (Part 1 of 3)

Folk tales about reversing circumstances in the next life were a staple in Hellenistic, Roman,...

September 15, 2022

Jesus and Another Story of Debt Cancellation (Part 3 of 3)

What I glean from this story is a call to look at my priorities within...

September 14, 2022

Jesus and Another Story of Debt Cancellation (Part 2 of 3)

It’s not about everyone having the same quantity, but everyone having the same quality. Some...

September 13, 2022

Jesus and Another Story of Debt Cancellation (Part 1 of 3)

In this context, we can begin to understand why, intrinsically, you cannot both serve this...

September 08, 2022

A Preferential Option and Student Debt Forgiveness (Part 3 of 3)

In a society that privileges certain ones by pushing others to the edges and undersides...

September 07, 2022

A Preferential Option and Student Debt Forgiveness (Part 2 of 3)

In those schools of interpretation, “a preferential option” for the one being harmed, excluded, and

September 06, 2022

A Preferential Option and Student Debt Forgiveness (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s reading includes arguably two of the most famous stories associated with Jesus today.

August 2022

August 17, 2022

Our Collective Thriving (Part 1 of 3)

This story creates a tension of priorities, pitting people’s needs for thriving and not simply...

August 05, 2022

Envisioning a World of Care (Part 3 of 3)

This week's reading can lead us to discussions about things like taxes, wealth limits, redistribution,...

August 04, 2022

Envisioning a World of Care (Part 2 of 3)

Instead, we see him teaching a more socialized way of living here on earth that...