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August 2021

August 11, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 2 of 3)

There are others who no longer believe in Christianity’s high claims, but who still engage...

August 10, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 1 of 3)

Yet there’s a way for us today, with our focus on establishing justice on Earth...

August 06, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 3 of 3)

What is bread that is only temporary and what is bread that leads to life...

August 05, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 2 of 3)

This would make much more sense if we define the bread of life as the...

August 04, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 1 of 3)

Can we reclaim this passage in our lectionary reading for this week?

July 2021

July 16, 2021

Ticket to Heaven or Concrete, Earthly Liberation (Part 3 of 3)

Whether we call it the reign of God or God’s just future or simply a...

July 15, 2021

Ticket to Heaven or Concrete, Earthly Liberation (Part 2 of 3)

This scene is not about heaven or later, but about what people are experiencing here...

July 14, 2021

Ticket to Heaven or Concrete, Earthly Liberation (Part 1 of 3)

The itinerant liberator image of Jesus that we encounter in Mark raises a question of...

July 08, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 3 of 3)

Truth telling will always carry consequences, some beneficial and others difficult to bear.

July 07, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 2 of 3)

The phrase “Speak Truth to Power” has its origins in the American Friends Service Committee...

July 06, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 1 of 3)

This story is an example of a familiar theme in the Hebrew prophets.

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...

January 2021

January 12, 2021

Desecrating Sacred Spaces

We are witnessing a disparity of values, a disparity of treatment and response, and disparity...

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 18, 2020

Building the World We Want to Live In (Part 1 of 3)

Today, capitalism has a long history of straining its inherent contradictions to the breaking point...

May 01, 2020

A More Distributively Just Way (Part 3 of 3)

The present pandemic is laying bare other areas of our unsustainable and unjust system. What...