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October 2021

October 06, 2021

Getting Free from Fear and Facing the Future Together (Part 2 of 3)

We read this story too individualistically in our culture today. Societal, systemic change begins with...

October 05, 2021

Getting Free from Fear and Facing the Future Together (Part 1 of 3)

The greater the wealth disparities within economic systems, the stronger the critique for those who...

September 2021

September 02, 2021

Openness to Change (3 of 3)

We can choose in these moments, not to get defensive, but to apologize when our...

September 01, 2021

Openness to Change (2 of 3)

The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

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 11, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 2 of 3)

There are others who no longer believe in Christianity’s high claims, but who still engage...

August 10, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 1 of 3)

Yet there’s a way for us today, with our focus on establishing justice on Earth...

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?

July 2021

July 23, 2021

Enough for Everyone (Part 3 of 3)

Various expressions of Christianity have likewise been complicit in seizing power. Powerful Christians have cooperated...

July 22, 2021

Enough for Everyone (Part 2 of 3)

This social consciousness appears to be part of the fabric of what it meant to...

July 21, 2021

Enough for Everyone (Part 1 of 3)

Among the canonical gospels, there are six versions of this story. Resource-sharing was central to...

July 01, 2021

A Community of Dependence and Connectedness (Part 3 of 3)

we take responsibility for taking care of one another, not to establish dependency, but because...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

A Community of Dependence and Connectedness (Part 2 of 3)

In our context, American capitalistic individualism and independence, which too often masquerade as freedom, dependence as...

June 29, 2021

A Community of Dependence and Connectedness (Part 1 of 3)

What does it actually mean for the empire of God to come? It begins with...

June 24, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 3 of 3)

In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...

April 2021

April 08, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 3)

We must be careful not to spiritualize these elements. What is does concrete good news...

April 07, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 2)

"I understand this is a subtle difference in interpretation but it creates a huge difference...

April 06, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 1)

The Jesus of John’s story doesn’t do things instead of us, as our substitute so...

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Jesus and Protest (Part 3)

Change for those being harmed never happens fast enough. But in each of our circles...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 3)

These are questions worth wrestling with as we enter this new year.

January 21, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 2)

A return to social equity always feels like “loss” for those who are privileged and...

January 19, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 1)

This is the intrinsic reason why our collective thriving depends on raising up some in...

January 08, 2021

Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 3 of 3)

This vision is of a world of social structures rooted in love for all. In...

January 06, 2021

Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 2 of 3)

Today, we must hold on to the hope that a different iteration of our world...

January 04, 2021

Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 1 of 3)

If Mark could offer good news or "gospel" in the midst of such loss for...

December 2020

December 24, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 9)

Lifting up the poor and pulling down the elite is a direct call to reducing...