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September 2025

September 04, 2025

Hating One’s Family and a More Equitable World for All

In the linguistic context of the time, "hating one's family" was often used hyperbolically to...

September 03, 2025

When Solidarity Causes Division

These passages describe division, the kind caused when standing with the vulnerable and marginalized and...

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...

August 2025

August 28, 2025

Jesus, Equity and Inclusion

What is really triggering modern-day opponents is how equity and inclusion challenges long-standing imbalances of...

August 27, 2025

A Moral Compass Within

For some people, their own moral compass is all they need to navigate life. It's...

August 26, 2025

The Politics of Humility: When Virtue Masks Control

Humility can be weaponized by oppressors to keep the oppressed submissive. It can also be...

August 21, 2025

When Religious Institutions Obstruct Justice

Our reading this week is about tension between liberation and the way a religious institution...

August 20, 2025

Sabbath as Labor Justice

The Sabbath commandment also had a history in a kind of labor justice. In its...

August 19, 2025

Sabbath and Social Justice

Sabbath is a sacred day of rest and spiritual renewal that is also deeply connected...

August 13, 2025

Injustice and Keeping our Hands on the Plow

With hands on the plow, peacemakers are breaking up and preparing our social soil for...

August 13, 2025

Injustice and a Negative Peace

Negative peace is created when we prioritize unity over speaking out and taking action for...

August 12, 2025

Unity Against Justice

We cannot build real unity on the denial of justice. Authentic unity emerges not from...

August 07, 2025

Bending Our World’s Moral Arc Toward Justice

That famous moral arc of justice requires deliberate and courageous efforts from those who choose...

August 06, 2025

A More Just Distribution of Wealth

This is why the poor, the hungry, the mourning are blessed: a community of just...

August 05, 2025

A World Where Everyone Has Enough

It’s a world where everyone has enough to thrive and no one is hoarding more...

August 01, 2025

The Problematic Responsiblity of Wealth

Faith traditions, moral philosophies, and humanitarian values all speak to the sacred responsibility that comes...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

Each Other’s Fate

The dilemma is that we are each other’s fate. Society can become mutually supportive or...

July 30, 2025

Jesus as Prophet of the Poor

And in the gospel stories, Jesus emerged in Galilee as a prophet of the poor....

July 24, 2025

Forgive Us Our Debts

It was less about forgiving general sins and trespasses and more about restoring the original...

July 23, 2025

A Gospel of No Interest and Debt Cancellation

If they fell on hard times, they were to be helped. No interest or profit...

July 22, 2025

The Lord’s Prayer and Unrealized Justice

Many of us today have come to understand that it is problematic to only allow...

July 18, 2025

Gender Equality and Patriarchy in the Bible

We must ask ourselves today whether gender equality or patriarchy life-giving? Who is being hurt?

July 17, 2025

The Bible and Gender Equality

The Bible and gender equality is a subject of ongoing theological debate drawing passionate voices...

July 16, 2025

Mary, Martha, and Gender Equality

In story of gender equality, women were not to be treated as less than, but...

July 14, 2025

Learning to Embrace Our Differences

Differences are often the first things we notice. They can shape our assumptions and interactions,...

July 09, 2025

The Good Samaritan and Embracing Diversity

The story of the good Samaritan reminds us we can choose to make our differences...

July 08, 2025

Who Is My Neighbor?

He asked, “And who is my neighbor?" This ancient story only appears here and it...

July 05, 2025

Dependency and the Community of Justice

When we work to make our world a more just, safe, compassionate home for all,...

July 02, 2025

Jesus’ Plan: Radical Dependence, Not Self-Reliance

As human beings, we are connected and depend on one another for survival, growth, and...

July 01, 2025

The Empire of God Begins With Dependency

These folk are sort of like ancient Cynics, but their goal is not self-sufficiency; these...