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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...

October 2025

October 28, 2025

The Social Revolution at the Heart of the Beatitudes

Luke’s beatitudes are another example of the social revolution toward the common good at the...

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 17, 2025

Fully Alive: Justice, Faith, Love and the Glory of God

Our reading this weeks reminds us that the goal is human beings not marginalized, oppressed,...

January 15, 2025

Turning Water into Wine: Hope, Justice, and Transformation

The image of turning water into wine reminds us of the saying in the womanist...

January 14, 2025

Water Into Wine: Interpreting Jesus’ First Miracle in John

John’s version and many of its themes are quite unique. That includes this week’s story...

January 09, 2025

The Justice of the Prophets in Our Context Today

May we renew our commitments to justice today and our dedication to taking care of...

January 08, 2025

Justice and the Prophets

We are called to work for justice in our contexts in the same way. What...

January 07, 2025

Justice and the Spirit of Love

So many prophetic voices throughout the centuries have called for justice. This week's reading calls...

August 2024

August 15, 2024

The Evolution of the Eucharist, Part 3

It would be transformative for privileged sectors of Christianity to listen to Eucharist interpretations from...

August 14, 2024

The Evolution of the Eucharist, Part 2

At these stages, this shared Eucharist meal was still about mutuality and resource-sharing, ensuring that...

August 13, 2024

The Evolution of the Eucharist, Part 1

Our reading this week is the Johannine’s community’s nod to the Eucharist. In John’s gospel,...

August 08, 2024

The Bread of Life, Part 3

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

August 07, 2024

The Bread of Life, Part 2

Interpretations of the bread of life that have become mere death management are, ironically, death-dealing....

August 06, 2024

The Bread of Life, Part 1

Before unpacking the bread of life, responsible commentary on John must repeatedly correct the way...

August 01, 2024

Not Spiritualizing the Material, Part 3

We don't need to be continually spiritualizing the material. Justice and saving bodies is as...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Not Spiritualizing the Material, Part 2

Spiritualizing the gospel, focusing on saving souls while ignoring suffering bodies, over and over again...

July 30, 2024

Not Spiritualizing the Material, Part 1

One of the unique elements here is a tendency to convert the material into spiritual,...

July 25, 2024

Transcending, Escaping or Engaging and Transforming, Part 3

In the synoptics, the story demonstrates the power of love, compassion, and justice in transforming...

July 24, 2024

Transcending, Escaping or Engaging and Transforming, Part 2

In the synoptics, this theme describes that which has emerged within our world for impacting...

July 24, 2024

Transcending, Escaping or Engaging and Transforming, Part 1

And although all of the gospels may have had a common ancestor in these stories,...

July 19, 2024

Jesus Following and Social Justice, Part 3

Loving others means being concerned with what materially affects them. Not being concerned with matters of...

July 18, 2024

Jesus Following and Social Justice, Part 2

In these stories, we don't encounter a focus on going to heaven when we die,...

July 17, 2024

Jesus Following and Social Justice, Part 1

This solidly characterizes both traditions as standing in the long Hebrew prophetic tradition of social...

July 10, 2024

Embracing our Dependency, Part 1

This is not a plan of individualism, or a plan of self-reliance or self-sufficiency. This...

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 20, 2024

When the Wind and Waves Threaten Justice, Part 3

Working toward justice continues to mean facing winds and waves from those who benefit from...

May 2024

May 30, 2024

The Sabbath and Social Justice, Part 3

These Sabbath stories in Mark call each us to reassess our best practices to make...

May 28, 2024

The Sabbath and Social Justice, Part 1

These were labor justice lessons. Everyone was entitled to time to rest and be restored....

May 16, 2024

Pentecost as Connectedness and Distributive Justice, Part 3

The Spirit expressed itself in economic justice among them where everyone made sure their neighbor...