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July 2025

July 18, 2025

Gender Equality and Patriarchy in the Bible

We must ask ourselves today whether gender equality or patriarchy life-giving? Who is being hurt?

July 17, 2025

The Bible and Gender Equality

The Bible and gender equality is a subject of ongoing theological debate drawing passionate voices...

July 16, 2025

Mary, Martha, and Gender Equality

In story of gender equality, women were not to be treated as less than, but...

April 2025

April 17, 2025

Resurrection Is Resistance, Not Redemption by Suffering

The earliest form of the good news, that we still need today, is not that...

April 16, 2025

Life and Living Not Death and Dying

Marginalized communities have spent years critiquing theologies that center on death rather than how life...

April 16, 2025

Original Good News Was About a Resurrection Not a Cross

The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christianity for two millennia. The original...

April 03, 2025

Poverty is a By-product of the System

Poverty is a by-product of the system in which we live. It is man-made and...

April 02, 2025

Mary Magdalene Was Not a Prostitute

Characterizing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute advanced the goals of disparaging women as leaders in...

April 01, 2025

Mary, Patriarchy and the War on Women in Leadership

Our story this week involving Mary was used to disparage women leaders within Christianity toward...

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...

October 2024

October 03, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 3

Justice and that which was life-giving were the concerns in our reading. That which is...

October 02, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 2

The culture wherein these ancient divorce laws were written was predominantly heterosexist and deeply patriarchal.

October 01, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 1

These laws written about divorce were not written with the same cultural practices and assumptions...

September 2024

September 20, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 3

Or are we flipping this script and using this teachings on being servants in ways...

September 18, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 2

It wasn't long before these words on being servants intended to correct those seeking status...

September 17, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 1

Our reading turns hierarchical ways of structuring our communities upside down, defining leaders as being...

September 05, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 3

Today we need more than magical cures that enable people to do better in our...

September 04, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 2

Intersectionality is such a rich lens through which to relate to this Jesus story as...

September 03, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 1

The first story is of a Greek woman who approaches Jesus on behalf of her...

June 2024

June 27, 2024

Preferential Options and Patriarchy, Part 3

By placing the woman alongside the little girl the story also calls us to reject...

June 27, 2024

Preferential Options and Patriarchy, Part 2

The story, at first, pretends to affirm the social assumption that if we practice preferential...

August 2023

August 16, 2023

Grow and Learn, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 2

This sounds a lot like the way all of us grow and learn: through experience...

July 2023

July 25, 2023

The Kingdom, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 1

Ironically, kingdom imagery was intended to help the church replace any earthly “king,” and make...

June 2023

June 08, 2023

The Woman, Part 3 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

To Christians today who want to use political power to make it much more dangerous...

June 07, 2023

Jairus’ Daughter, Part 2 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

In this story, women’s reproductive ability is not their choice but governed by men to...

June 06, 2023

Healing, Part 1 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...

May 2023

May 04, 2023

Dear Mama God, Part 3 of Gendering God

After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately...

May 03, 2023

Gender Functions, Part 2 of Gendering God

The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift...

May 02, 2023

Exclusivity, Part 1 of Gendering God

Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal...

April 2023

April 19, 2023

Undoing, Part 2 of Resurrection as the Good News

Many who live in or stand in solidarity with oppressed communities have seen how destructive...