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March 2022

March 22, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...

March 09, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

This calls into question how we interpret Christian narratives of Jesus’ death and resurrection as...

March 01, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

For many Christians, this weekend marks the first weekend of Lent, which commemorates the 40...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 3 of 3)

We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her...

December 16, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 3)

Mary's story, like Jael’s and Judith’s, is much more scandalous. The life growing in here...

December 15, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 2)

Medieval images of Jael often depict her as a prefiguration of Mary the mother of Jesus.

December 14, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 1)

Those who heard Luke’s narrative and were familiar with the stories of the Hebrew scriptures...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 3 of 3)

It’s not just okay but it’s actually right for us to be angry when we...

September 29, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 2 of 3)

Where we read of the creation of day and night: not a hard binary but...

September 28, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 1 of 3)

Christians today do a great deal of harm by shallowly thinking Jesus was against all...

September 09, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 3 of 3)

This story is, on the other hand, encouraging Jesus' followers to resist as he did...

September 08, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 2 of 3)

If you believe that acceptance of suffering gives life, then your resources for confronting perpetrators...

September 07, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 1 of 3)

Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of “taking up one’s cross” to prioritize themselves...

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 31, 2021

Openness to Change ( 1 of 3)

This story offers a lot to us in the context of our own blinkered ways...

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...

June 2021

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...

June 17, 2021

Peace, Be Still (Part 3 of 3)

We don’t need a peace that is only a passive lull in our struggle for...

June 04, 2021

Binding the Strong Man (Part 3 of 3)

Today our strong man could be capitalism, White supremacy, Christian nationalism, cisheterosexism, and more. All...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Hated by the Right People (Part 3)

If we find ourselves opposed by the marginalized because we are actually standing between them...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 3)

I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....

April 28, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 1)

After almost two centuries of Christian patriarchy gendering God as exclusively male, we must recognize...

April 22, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 3)

When we choose to make justice ultimately win, not just in isolated occurrences but systemically,...

April 20, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 1)

Even today when you do a simple image search for Jesus, you’ll get ten or...

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 3)

God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 2)

The book of Acts offers just one example of this alternative focus and emphasis; the...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 1)

The good news was not that Jesus died, or even that he died for you....