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April 2025

April 16, 2025

Original Good News Was About a Resurrection Not a Cross

The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christianity for two millennia. The original...

April 10, 2025

If You Want Peace, Work for Justice

Moving from teaching to protest happens in the story on the back of a young...

April 09, 2025

Achieving Peace Through Distributive Justice

This kind of peace and liberation will not come stronger violence, but through the holistic...

April 08, 2025

Peace Through Justice Doesn’t Need A War Horse

The prophets envisioned a different kind of peace achieved through a different type of means....

April 03, 2025

Poverty is a By-product of the System

Poverty is a by-product of the system in which we live. It is man-made and...

April 02, 2025

Mary Magdalene Was Not a Prostitute

Characterizing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute advanced the goals of disparaging women as leaders in...

April 01, 2025

Mary, Patriarchy and the War on Women in Leadership

Our story this week involving Mary was used to disparage women leaders within Christianity toward...

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...

March 25, 2025

Social Justice Lessons from the Prodigal Son

In the prodigal story, the label “sinner” was assigned to anyone being politically or socially...

March 20, 2025

When Repentance Means Changing the System, Thoughts For Lent

Systems of injustice are never sustainable. This year's Lent can be superficial and temporary or...

March 19, 2025

The Tower of Siloam: Jesus, Injustice, and Insurrection

Next in our reading is the tower of Siloam. This example is much more cryptic....

March 18, 2025

Social Repentance: Jesus’ Call Beyond Private Piety

Our reading isn’t about personal, private repentance for individual misdeeds. Like the Hebrew prophets of...

March 13, 2025

Will We Have the Courage of Jesus in This Political Moment?

In the face of so many who are being hurt right now, may we, too,...

March 12, 2025

Why Herod Feared Jesus: Power, Protest, and Prophecy

All of this causes me to consider those courageously standing up against brutal acts being...

March 11, 2025

Herod the Fox and Saying No to Those in Power

Standing up to power and saying, "No," was central to the Hebrew, prophetic, justice tradition...

March 06, 2025

The Temptations and Repentance for the Present Mess

This year, the story of the temptations calls Christians who bear responsibility for the mess...

March 05, 2025

Jesus vs. Rome: The Temptation of Power and Complicity

Written in the language of the fantastic, these were a conspicuously veiled critique of their...

March 04, 2025

Lessons from the Three Temptations

The current political environment in the U.S. has given us a different lens to read...

February 2025

February 27, 2025

Transfiguration and Solidarity with the Vulnerable

Who are the Moseses and Elijahs of our day? Transfiguration challenges us to stand with...

February 26, 2025

The Way of Jesus: A Call to Justice, Not Just Salvation

These elements were so central to these early followers they became known as people of...

February 25, 2025

The Transfiguration: Jesus, Moses, Elijah, and Justice

Moses and Elijah, both, are symbols of accomplished societal justice and liberation for the masses...

February 20, 2025

Judgment, Justice, and the Call to Love Our Enemies

While we work for justice, we reject judging another human being’s worth or value as...

February 19, 2025

Insights on Loving your Enemies

Enemy love means both not cooperating with, resisting or obstructing violence and injustice, and also...

February 18, 2025

Insights on Turning the Other Cheek

Too often turning the other cheek is interpreted as passive nonresitance rather than the cultural...

February 13, 2025

A Gospel for the Underprivileged

Luke's gospel is for the underprivileged, longing for things to be put right, those present...

February 12, 2025

Lessons from Luke’s Sermon on the Plain

The equity that the sermon on the plain envisions is a world where there are...

February 06, 2025

The Prophetic Nature of Fishing for People

The examples of the prophetic nature of fishing for people in Jeremiah, Amos, and Ezekiel,...

February 05, 2025

The Fishing Metaphor and Overturning Injustice

The fishing metaphor was about hooking or catching a harmful, unjust, powerful person, and overturning...

February 04, 2025

Fishing For People

Fishing never works out well for the fish! Using it metaphorically as fishing for people...