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May 2024

May 15, 2024

Pentecost as Connectedness and Distributive Justice, Part 2

One of the fruits of the Spirit (to borrow Paul’s language) in the synoptic gospels...

May 14, 2024

Pentecost as Connectedness and Distributive Justice, Part 1

This upcoming weekend is Pentecost in the Western Christian calendar. And these passages define that...

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 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 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...

November 2023

November 08, 2023

Apocalyptic Passivity, Part 2

An apocalyptic Jesus offers an excuse to ignore many of Jesus’ teaching on the basis...

November 07, 2023

Apocalyptic Passivity, Part 1

This apocalyptic theme reflects more the concerns of the community after the crucifixion than it does...

November 01, 2023

Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 2

This critiques those seeking political power rather than doing the work required to bring about...

October 2023

October 12, 2023

A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 3

All are invited, and not all are welcome. To be welcome at the table, you...

August 2023

August 16, 2023

Grow and Learn, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 2

This sounds a lot like the way all of us grow and learn: through experience...

October 2022

October 11, 2022

Persistence Toward Justice (Part 1 of 3)

Persistence in working for societal justice is at the heart of these kinds of sacred...

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...

April 2022

April 19, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 1 of 3)

Forgiveness divorced from that spirit serves to only perpetuate oppression and harm.

March 2022

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...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Seeing Others As Part of Ourselves (Part 3 of 3)

We are extensions of each other, and part of the same human family. What affects...

October 27, 2021

Seeing Others As Part of Ourselves (Part 2 of 3)

"This passage both to affirms Judaism and critiques more regressive and fundamentalist forms of Christianity,...

October 26, 2021

Seeing Others As Part of Ourselves (Part 1 of 3)

Many today tout loving your neighbor as a religious tenet, but this passage shows it...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 3 of 3)

It’s not just okay but it’s actually right for us to be angry when we...

September 29, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 2 of 3)

Where we read of the creation of day and night: not a hard binary but...

September 28, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 1 of 3)

Christians today do a great deal of harm by shallowly thinking Jesus was against all...

September 23, 2021

Social Justice, Jesus and Hell (Part 3 of 3)

Something is good, remember, based on the kind of fruit it produces, whether it is...

September 22, 2021

Social Justice, Jesus and Hell (Part 2 of 3)

The language that the gospels used here would not have conjured a vision of post-mortem,...

September 21, 2021

Social Justice, Jesus and Hell (Part 1 of 3)

There is an alternative, especially for those attracted to the ethical teachings of Jesus but...

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...

August 12, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 3 of 3)

That the kind of people we choose to be today will impact the kind of...