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October 2025

October 09, 2025

The Story of the Ten Lepers and Christian Xenophobia

The story of the ten lepers communicates a similar lesson as the good Samaritan and...

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...

January 17, 2025

Fully Alive: Justice, Faith, Love and the Glory of God

Our reading this weeks reminds us that the goal is human beings not marginalized, oppressed,...

January 15, 2025

Turning Water into Wine: Hope, Justice, and Transformation

The image of turning water into wine reminds us of the saying in the womanist...

January 14, 2025

Water Into Wine: Interpreting Jesus’ First Miracle in John

John’s version and many of its themes are quite unique. That includes this week’s story...

October 2023

October 12, 2023

A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 3

All are invited, and not all are welcome. To be welcome at the table, you...

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 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 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...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 3 of 3)

If we take seriously Jesus’ call for no more lords, and we work for a...

October 14, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 2 of 3)

I appreciate the emphasis on not encouraging lordship, and we must also be honest that...

October 13, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 1 of 3)

Crucifixion was not a passive acceptance of abuse and injustice. It was Rome’s punishment for...

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 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...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

No More Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

These narratives speak of a God who, rather than demanding someone’s sacrifice, stands in solidarity...

November 18, 2020

No More Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)

Both narratives of sacrifice and narratives of anti-sacrifice are found in the sacred texts, and...

November 16, 2020

No More Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

The unity that comes through sacrificing a common enemy is temporary and must be continually...

November 13, 2020

Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 3 of 3)

To change systemic oppression, every time, we must stand in solidarity with the oppressed, demanding...

November 11, 2020

Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 2 of 3)

In the stories, Jesus was seeking to help both sides reclaim their humanity and that...

November 10, 2020

Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 1 of 3)

Oppression dehumanizes everyone involved. By dehumanizing another, we lose our own humanity, and when we...

November 06, 2020

A Community of the Rejected (Part 3 of 3)

And another iteration of our present world is possible where people who are different are...

November 05, 2020

A Community of the Rejected (Part 2 of 3)

If you’ve been rejected by others, your voice is centered in God’s just future. Those...

November 04, 2020

A Community of the Rejected (Part 1 of 3)

Rejection was a familiar theme for the early followers of Jesus. How can we reclaim...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

An Unjust Judge (Part 3 of 3)

That’s why I don’t interpret this story to be solely about prayer. That would leave...

October 28, 2020

An Unjust Judge (Part 2 of 3)

That’s what this widow did. She made the life of the magistrate uncomfortable until he...