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July 2023

July 27, 2023

Old and New, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 3

When what we thought was life-giving turns out not to be, we can hold on...

July 26, 2023

Mustard and Yeast, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 2

In the stories, it threatened the status quo and was deemed as yeast, a corrupting...

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...

July 20, 2023

Exclusion, How Not to View the World Part 3

If any are excluded in the just world we are working towards and creating, it...

July 19, 2023

People as Weeds, How Not to View the World Part 2

When we label someone as a weed, we never make it our practice to let...

July 18, 2023

A Problematic Passage, How Not to View the World Part 1

When a problematic passage only appears in one gospel, it gives me pause. We don’t...

July 12, 2023

Sharing, Part 2 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth

Every member of the community held a mutual commitment, sharing what they could to ensure...

July 07, 2023

Nuance, Part 3 of The Destructiveness of All or Nothing

By ignoring nuance they are setting themselves up to always be destined to exhibit “deeds”...

July 06, 2023

The Bible, Part 2 of The Destructiveness of All or Nothing

The more one reads the Bible, the more one encounters passages in the scriptures that...

July 05, 2023

By Deeds, Part 1 of The Destructiveness of All or Nothing

It’s for us to discern whether what we think is wisdom has produced deeds that...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

Connected, Part 2 of Our Dependence on One Another

We live in a culture of independence, isolation, and self-sufficiency that ignores the reality that...

June 29, 2023

Dependency, Part 1 of Our Dependence on One Another

It begins with a knock at the door. On the stoop stand two itinerant beggars...

June 22, 2023

Sustainable, Part 3 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

"What does this passage have to say about how sustainable our system today is, both...

June 21, 2023

Gehenna, Part 2 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

This language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context, rather than in a modern Christian...

June 20, 2023

Gehenna, Part 1 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

Let’s try to hear this language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context rather than...

June 15, 2023

A Kingdom, Part 3 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

Whatever we call it, this was about a world that is compassionate, safe, just home...

June 14, 2023

Justice, Part 2 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

The harvest was associated with justice, a vision of a world where no one had...

June 13, 2023

A Harvest, Part 1 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

A harvest metaphor makes a lot more sense given that context. In the Hebrew scriptures, the...

June 08, 2023

The Woman, Part 3 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

To Christians today who want to use political power to make it much more dangerous...

June 07, 2023

Jairus’ Daughter, Part 2 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

In this story, women’s reproductive ability is not their choice but governed by men to...

June 06, 2023

Healing, Part 1 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...

June 01, 2023

The Sermon on the Mount, Part 3 of Obeying What Jesus Taught

What are some of these commands that Matthew’s Jesus tells us to obey? The lion...

May 2023

May 31, 2023

An Exchange, Part 2 of Obeying What Jesus Taught

Change is a two way street, an exchange. Those we meet, share with, and listen...

May 30, 2023

The Great Commission, Part 1 of Obeying What Jesus Taught

We must be honest about how this passage has been coopted by colonialism that has...

May 25, 2023

Justice, Part 3 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice

One way to redeem this passage is to connect it to John 20. To inhale...

May 24, 2023

The Material, Part 2 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice

We need a holistic interpretation where people’s spiritual wellbeing is connected to their material economic,...

May 23, 2023

The Ethereal, Part 1 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice

There is a tendency here to devalue the material, concrete, physical realities in which people...

May 18, 2023

Justice, Part 3 of A Unity That’s Big Enough

A unity that walks arm and arm with justice. A unity that’s big enough to...

May 17, 2023

Knowing, Part 2 of A Unity That’s Big Enough

I resonate much more with working to make our concrete world, here and now, a...

May 16, 2023

Farewell, Part 1 of A Unity That’s Big Enough

Our reading this week is John’s version of Jesus’ farewell prayer. This passage deeply influenced...