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October 2023

October 05, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 3

The Jewish crowds would not have loved Jesus if this parable taught they were being...

October 04, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 2

The crowds would have heard this parable of the vineyard differently than the elites and...

October 03, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 1

The crowds would have heard this parable of the vineyard differently than the elites and...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 3

There is a lesson in this for us. Don’t get side tracked or distracted by...

September 27, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 2

He doesn’t waste time defending his right to speak out or his right to exist....

September 26, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 1

We glean wisdom here as we stand in solidarity with the those in underprivileged social...

September 21, 2023

Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 3

The foundational concern, the priority of highest value, is ensuring these workers have their needs...

September 20, 2023

Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 2

Equality is a theme, not only in the gospels, but also in the economic teachings...

September 19, 2023

Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 1

Ruskin lifts this parable out of religious interpretations created by privileged, propertied, and powerful religious...

September 14, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 3 of Seventy Times Seven

I've heard many Christians voices over the last two years weigh in on the subject...

September 13, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 2 of Seventy Times Seven

What once involved the debt forgiveness toward poor debtors became universalized. Social location was no...

September 12, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 1 of Seventy Times Seven

This was not a call for the indebted to forgive their abusive creditors, but for...

September 07, 2023

Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 3

How do we relate to those with whom we have significant differences and which whom...

September 06, 2023

Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 2

Regardless of its origins, our reading this week does contain a nugget of wisdom within...

September 05, 2023

Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 1

They were grappling with how to relate to fellow community members making choices with which...

August 2023

August 31, 2023

What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean, Part 3

How we define bearing a cross makes a difference in how we respond to injustice...

August 31, 2023

Speaking Out, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 2

This is a far cry from counseling early followers to passively bear injustice, but a...

August 29, 2023

Participation, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 1

For better or worse, they interpreted the cross in terms of participation not substitution or...

August 24, 2023

Messiahs, Part 3 of Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right

Today, however, it is much more life giving to speak of correcting injustices without using...

August 23, 2023

Justice, Part 2 of Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right

This title referred much more to someone who would establish justice on Earth, ending oppression...

August 22, 2023

Here on Earth, Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right Part 1

The great hope was the setting right of all injustice, the putting right of all...

August 17, 2023

A Canaanite Woman, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 3

She also uses his language against him to show him how blinkered his understanding is.

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...

August 15, 2023

It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong, Part 1

This is important to name because using this term as a pejorative slur is historically...

August 10, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 3

Working for social change, whether within faith communities or outside of them, can be hard...

August 09, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 2

As strange as this story may be to us today, it would not have been...

August 08, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 1

First, let’s acknowledge how strange a story like this is to our post-enlightenment, science informed...

August 03, 2023

Questions, Enoughism Part 3

Practicing a social, political or economic ethic in harmony with the belief that God loves...

August 02, 2023

Eucharist, Enoughism Part 2

Forgetting the communal purpose of the Eucharist and its lessons of sharing our resources was...

August 01, 2023

Sharing, Enoughism Part 1

The path of life for the future is always one of enoughism, one of sharing,...