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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...

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...

August 2024

August 08, 2024

The Bread of Life, Part 3

Bread of life interpretations should move us, not toward the immaterial, but to shape our...

June 2024

June 27, 2024

Preferential Options and Patriarchy, Part 3

By placing the woman alongside the little girl the story also calls us to reject...

June 27, 2024

Preferential Options and Patriarchy, Part 2

The story, at first, pretends to affirm the social assumption that if we practice preferential...

May 2024

May 09, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 3

This combined with the passage in John defines our being sent as to be a...

May 08, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 2

This influence in John is seen when we are focused on heaven while being oblivious...

May 07, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 1

The gospel story is subtly different in the Johannine community’s version and these differences in...

May 02, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 3

As we work toward making our world a safe for everyone, love of neighbor calls...

May 01, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 2

If Christians are going to become peacemakers, we are first going have to learn how...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 1

It’s much more difficult to preach the gospel that the Jesus in the stories preached,...

April 25, 2024

Different Christianity Different Fruit, Part 3

Today, it is no secret that some forms Christianity are failing to produce the fruit...

April 23, 2024

Different Christianity Different Fruit, Part 1

I would argue that it’s about producing a certain kind of fruit rather than the...

September 2021

September 01, 2021

Openness to Change (2 of 3)

The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

September 22, 2020

Jesus and Law and Order (Part 1 of 3)

Jesus here is announcing that God’s just future is decidedly for those the present system...

September 03, 2020

Enough for Us All (Part 3 of 3)

There is enough manna for everyone. It belongs to all of us, as a gift....

September 02, 2020

Enough for Us All (Part 2 of 3)

Our hope for the future is in our ability to cooperate with one another to...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Enough for Us All (Part 1 of 3)

Though oppressors often claim “God is on our side,” the God of this Genesis story...

August 27, 2020

A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 3 of 3)

Each day, with the choices we make, we are shaping the kind of earth we...

August 26, 2020

A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 2 of 3)

Today we are still called not to be passive in regards to the injustice, oppression,...

August 25, 2020

A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 1 of 3)

Jesus stood in the Hebrew prophetic justice tradtion: that tradition and hope was grounded here...

August 21, 2020

Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Faith in Jesus that is not aligned with social justice in its many expressions or...

August 19, 2020

Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 2 of 3)

Not only does this definition fit Jesus and how he related to marginalized people in...

August 17, 2020

Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 1 of 3)

What does it mean for those who claim to be followers of Jesus to lose...

August 14, 2020

Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 3 of 3)

The story calls us to begin by identifying our oppressive political, economic, and religious systems...

August 12, 2020

Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 2 of 3)

As Jesus followers today, the gospel we tell must locate Jesus among our oppressed siblings,...

August 11, 2020

Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 1 of 3)

Their focus was very much on this present world, and the gospels showed a Jesus...

August 07, 2020

The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 3 of 3)

Life can also conquer death today if we will choose it. Our political, economic, and...

August 05, 2020

The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 2 of 3)

The resurrection is not a scientific declaration of a person coming back to life. It’s...

August 03, 2020

The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 1 of 3)

I don’t believe that triumph is automatic. We have to choose life and life-giving ways...