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May 2026

May 05, 2026

Love Expressed in Actions Related to Justice

Love here is not abstract, but an expression of relational justice confronting harmful systems in...

October 2025

October 01, 2025

Holy Wrongs: The Sacred Normalization of Evil in Scripture

One of the dangers of readings like this is the normalization for Christians of evils...

September 2025

September 09, 2025

The Lost Sheep Metaphor in a Fragmented Society

It can lead to the marginalization of those who are different all while absolving the...

September 02, 2025

When Coming Out as LGBTQ Means Losing One’s Family

For LGBTQ youth, acceptance at home is crucial. Rejection has devastating effects on a child's...

March 2025

March 27, 2025

The Prodigal Teaches We Aren’t Great Until Everyone Is Great

It wasn’t enough to enable more people to compete for power. The prodigal story envisions...

March 26, 2025

When ‘Sinner’ Just Meant ‘Poor’ in Jesus’ Day

They were simply different. Applying the term sinner to this group only served to socially...

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...

May 2024

May 02, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 3

As we work toward making our world a safe for everyone, love of neighbor calls...

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...

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...

April 2023

April 13, 2023

That Which is Life Giving, Part 3 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

This week’s reading is also a good reminder to choose that which is life giving...

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,...

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...

September 2022

September 01, 2022

Rejection For Doing What Is Right (Part 3 of 3)

Our reading this week encourages us to recognize ahead of time that we may face...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

Rejection For Doing What Is Right (Part 2 of 3)

There is another way to interpret this week’s passage: to prioritize working for a safe,...

August 30, 2022

Rejection For Doing What Is Right (Part 1 of 3)

If your religion causes you to feel like you must reject your lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

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...

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...

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...