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January 2026

January 13, 2026

Darkness Has Become A Harmful Metaphor

Interrogating the metaphor of darkness is not about banning poetic language but about recognizing how...

December 2025

December 30, 2025

New Beginnings and the Word Becoming Flesh

New beginnings require responsible interpretations that take into account historical contexts and couragously reject harmful...

October 2025

October 02, 2025

When Christian Interpretations Normalize Social Evils

This explains how certain sectors of Christianity have embraced xenophobic, fascist, and authoritarian elements in...

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 30, 2025

When the Bible Speaks of Slavery

I find this passage abhorrent. I offer no justification for slavery. Nor will I advocate...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

A Gospel With Social Justice Implications

Faith without works of justice was worth nothing. A gospel without social implications was to...

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 30, 2025

A Modern Example of Uncomfortable History

In our story this week, merely referring to a community’s history evokes a response of...

January 29, 2025

The Discomfort of Our History

Our reading this week offers us an openness to addressing the parts of our own...

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,...

January 18, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 1 of 3)

This impacts how we talk about the Bible’s use of light and darkness, too. We...

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...

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...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 3 of 3)

There are so many of us today who benefit from the violence of our present...

January 19, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 2 of 3)

Of all the passages in the Hebrew scriptures that the author of Luke could have...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 3 of 3)

If we take seriously Jesus’ call for no more lords, and we work for a...

October 14, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 2 of 3)

I appreciate the emphasis on not encouraging lordship, and we must also be honest that...

October 13, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 1 of 3)

Crucifixion was not a passive acceptance of abuse and injustice. It was Rome’s punishment for...

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 26, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 3 of 3)

I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...

August 25, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 2 of 3)

These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...

August 24, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 1 of 3)

Throughout history Christians have used the label of Pharisee as a disparaging or derogatory title...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 3 of 3)

In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...

June 17, 2021

Peace, Be Still (Part 3 of 3)

We don’t need a peace that is only a passive lull in our struggle for...

June 04, 2021

Binding the Strong Man (Part 3 of 3)

Today our strong man could be capitalism, White supremacy, Christian nationalism, cisheterosexism, and more. All...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Hated by the Right People (Part 3)

If we find ourselves opposed by the marginalized because we are actually standing between them...