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July 2020

July 30, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 3 of 3)

When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of...

July 29, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 2 of 3)

As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences...

July 28, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 1 of 3)

The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values...

July 23, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the...

July 22, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)

This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the...

July 21, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic...

July 16, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 3 of 3)

I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus...

July 15, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 2 of 3)

"This passage is also the very passage Jesus quoted as he demonstrated against his own...

July 13, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 1 of 3)

So the passage in Matthew isn’t about using the term “fool,” but about mislabelling as...

July 09, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 3 of 3)

Personally and systemically, our hope as a species is in discovering more effective ways of...

July 08, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 2 of 3)

In the gospels, we see a vision of God’s just future where human communities are...

July 06, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 1 of 3)

What does it look like for Jesus followers to create ways of organizing communities that...

July 02, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 3 of 3)

“Every generation faces these inflexible alternatives, transformation or eventual implosion—these are the inflexible alternatives before...

July 01, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 2 of 3)

"He was not rejected by the people. He was silenced by the powerful and elite...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 1 of 3)

Today’s climate for those deemed essential workers during our present pandemic is similar. As the...

June 19, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Peace through a militarized quelling of unrest is not peace, but a lull waiting for...

June 17, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 2 of 3)

This is where the path of systemic injustice pressed down too long by militarized force...

June 15, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 1 of 3)

What we have here is two paths toward peace. One was enforced by militarized power...

June 10, 2020

COVID and the Things That Make for Peace (Part 2 of 2)

Glaude ends the interview with the call to both imagine a different world and voice...

June 08, 2020

COVID and the Things That Make for Peace (Part 1 of 2)

Will those in our future look back at us today and say, “If you, even...

June 03, 2020

3 Reasons Why White Christians Should Be Standing In Solidarity With Black People

Here are a few reasons why I am convinced that White Christians should be standing...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

A Different Kind of Messiah (Part 2 of 2)

Our passage this week and this pandemic make me think of my working-class Appalachian friends,...

May 26, 2020

A Different Kind of Messiah (Part 1 of 2)

That’s what we need right now. That’s the kind of world I want to be...

May 22, 2020

Building the World We Want to Live In (Part 3 of 3)

It cannot be stated enough that although we are all affected by this pandemic we...

May 20, 2020

Building the World We Want to Live In (Part 2 of 3)

Blessed are the ones modeling a compassionate new world. Blessed are the ones shaping a...

May 15, 2020

Growth For Growth’s Sake (Part 3 of 3)

Growth for growth’s sake in capitalist economics is called profit. It’s good for business. But...

May 13, 2020

Growth For Growth’s Sake (Part 2 of 3)

The system of exploitation of the masses for the benefit of a few was set...

May 11, 2020

Growth For Growth’s Sake (Part 1 of 3)

The elites were victim-blaming. The oppressed class’s failure to put things right was not because...

May 08, 2020

A Gospel for the Earth (Part 3 of 3)

What would happen if Christians stopped believing that Jesus’s way is impractical, naïve, insufficient, or...

May 06, 2020

A Gospel for the Earth (Part 2 of 3)

This says to me that it is better to deal with things now, at this...