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April 2023

April 06, 2023

Mary at the Tomb, Part 3 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...

April 05, 2023

Resurrection, Part 2 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...

April 04, 2023

Good News, Part 1 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 2 of 3)

"This concept often then turns into unhealthy passive acceptance and unhealthy forms of self-sacrifice having...

January 2023

January 20, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 3 of 3)

Healing justice can still liberate today as it did in some of our most sacred,...

January 19, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 2 of 3)

Whatever one decides to call it, we are talking about changes here and now, life-giving...

November 2022

November 04, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 3 of 3)

Today, we must ask whether our social institutions are being practiced in life-giving or death-dealing...

November 03, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 2 of 3)

This week’s reading challenges all our institutions, systems, and social structures including marriage.

November 01, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 1 of 3)

His response in each synoptic gospel is telling: and that response doesn’t seem to be...

October 2022

October 21, 2022

Faith Based Complicity in Social Harm (Part 3 of 3)

Are we building systems that give life to those who marginalized and vulnerable or are...

October 19, 2022

Faith Based Complicity in Social Harm (Part 2 of 3)

Though religiously observant in their own eyes, they were still politically complicit in the concrete...

October 18, 2022

Faith Based Complicity in Social Harm (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s passage is about a lot more than just humility. It’s also about complicity...

August 2022

August 11, 2022

The Personal Cost of Causing Division (Part 3 of 3)

In the end, it’s about harm reduction and mitigation. It is the reality of this...

August 10, 2022

The Personal Cost of Causing Division (Part 2 of 3)

Our reading this week calls to mind times when we have also had to make...

August 09, 2022

The Personal Cost of Causing Division (Part 1 of 3)

The struggle in the story is with the economic, political, and social harm being committed...

July 2022

July 14, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 3 of 3)

Adults a generation from now will value those different from them according to the way...

July 13, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 2 of 3)

This is a strong message and should be weighed carefully by all Christian communities and...

July 12, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 1 of 3)

Mary chooses to transgress patriarchal, gender binary, gender role assumptions. The story also lauds her...

June 2022

June 02, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 3 of 3)

People of all genders should be able to see themselves as bearing the image of...

June 01, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 2 of 3)

This declaration specifically excludes women from the Imago Dei and justifies the exclusion by referring...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 1 of 3)

For Boyer, every other detail of the incarnation is incidental, but the fact that Jesus...

May 19, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 3 of 3)

The bodily autonomy of people in these communities is just the latest example of how...

May 18, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 2 of 3)

Early Christians were not concerned with saving people from post-mortem realities as much as they...

May 17, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 1 of 3)

Advocacy is any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports...

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...

April 2022

April 14, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)

This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...

April 13, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 2 of 3)

These are valid questions. How can we reconcile seeing the cross event as a salvific...

April 12, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)

One thing that is common to all the gospel narratives is the presence of women...

March 2022

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...