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August 2022

August 03, 2022

Envisioning a World of Care (Part 1 of 3)

The first portion of this week’s reading centers on the ethics of resource-sharing and wealth...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

Sharing More Than We Need (Part 3 of 3)

When we do this, we are creating a new world, setting in motion a world...

July 27, 2022

Sharing More Than We Need (Part 2 of 3)

In the story, when we find ourselves with more than what we ourselves need to...

July 26, 2022

Sharing More Than We Need (Part 1 of 3)

We are socialized by our U.S. culture to be uneasy here. Lean into this discomfort.

May 2022

May 12, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 3 of 3)

When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 3 of 3)

I don’t believe Jesus’ words in John about poor people should be interpreted as establishing...

March 30, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 2 of 3)

But this interpretation benefits those who are enriched by the status quo and don’t want...

March 29, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 1 of 3)

Mary’s act is one of gratitude . . . The story is not primarily that...

March 24, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 3 of 3)

As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...

March 23, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 2 of 3)

"Sinner" was the pejorative label that those at the center of Jesus society used to...

March 17, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 3 of 3)

Democratic societies must be made to birth a distributively just society where the needs of...

March 16, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 2 of 3)

This is a good time to pause and reflect on how injustice is unsustainable in...

March 15, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 1 of 3)

I don’t hear the moralistic idea of repentance so many of us are used to...

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...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 3 of 3)

Our choices show not only what kind of people we want to be; they also...

February 10, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 3 of 3)

We can choose to bend the arc of the universe toward justice for everyone. That...

February 09, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 2 of 3)

If the elite and privileged all speak well of you, then chances are this week’s...

February 08, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 1 of 3)

Just because you’re being criticized doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the right track, and being...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 3 of 3)

There are so many of us today who benefit from the violence of our present...

January 19, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 2 of 3)

Of all the passages in the Hebrew scriptures that the author of Luke could have...

November 2021

November 11, 2021

Declaring War Against Poverty (Part 3 of 3)

I don’t want a post-pandemic world that looks like the pre-pandemic world. We can do...

November 10, 2021

Declaring War Against Poverty (Part 2 of 3)

Seeing the overthrowing of such economically exploitative systems not as “the end,” but as the...

November 09, 2021

Declaring War Against Poverty (Part 1 of 3)

Christians have long interpreted these events in ways that have proven deeply harmful to our...

November 04, 2021

A Widow, Taxes, and Giving More Than What is Life-Giving to Give (Part 3 of 3)

This story does not praise the piety of the poor within a system that takes...

November 03, 2021

A Widow, Taxes, and Giving More Than What is Life-Giving to Give (Part 2 of 3)

To get life-giving answers, we must first ask life-giving questions, and the common interpretations of...

November 02, 2021

A Widow, Taxes, and Giving More Than What is Life-Giving to Give (Part 1 of 3)

Common interpretations of our story this week fall short. I find these interpretations deeply harmful...

October 2021

October 21, 2021

Damage Mitigation Versus Changing the System (Part 3 of 3)

It’s not enough to remove the basis for people being treated as less-than. We must...

October 20, 2021

Damage Mitigation Versus Changing the System (Part 2 of 3)

Can we follow the values we have found to be life-giving in the Jesus story...

October 19, 2021

Damage Mitigation Versus Changing the System (Part 1 of 3)

Gospel stories like this one have repeatedly been the seed of society perceiving people with...

October 07, 2021

Getting Free from Fear and Facing the Future Together (Part 3 of 3)

Christians have always come up with ways around stories like these in the gospels. What...