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July 2025

July 18, 2025

Gender Equality and Patriarchy in the Bible

We must ask ourselves today whether gender equality or patriarchy life-giving? Who is being hurt?

July 17, 2025

The Bible and Gender Equality

The Bible and gender equality is a subject of ongoing theological debate drawing passionate voices...

July 16, 2025

Mary, Martha, and Gender Equality

In story of gender equality, women were not to be treated as less than, but...

April 2025

April 17, 2025

Resurrection Is Resistance, Not Redemption by Suffering

The earliest form of the good news, that we still need today, is not that...

April 16, 2025

Life and Living Not Death and Dying

Marginalized communities have spent years critiquing theologies that center on death rather than how life...

April 16, 2025

Original Good News Was About a Resurrection Not a Cross

The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christianity for two millennia. The original...

April 03, 2025

Poverty is a By-product of the System

Poverty is a by-product of the system in which we live. It is man-made and...

April 02, 2025

Mary Magdalene Was Not a Prostitute

Characterizing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute advanced the goals of disparaging women as leaders in...

April 01, 2025

Mary, Patriarchy and the War on Women in Leadership

Our story this week involving Mary was used to disparage women leaders within Christianity toward...

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...

September 2024

September 05, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 3

Today we need more than magical cures that enable people to do better in our...

September 04, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 2

Intersectionality is such a rich lens through which to relate to this Jesus story as...

September 03, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 1

The first story is of a Greek woman who approaches Jesus on behalf of her...

June 2023

June 08, 2023

The Woman, Part 3 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

To Christians today who want to use political power to make it much more dangerous...

June 07, 2023

Jairus’ Daughter, Part 2 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

In this story, women’s reproductive ability is not their choice but governed by men to...

June 06, 2023

Healing, Part 1 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...

May 2023

May 04, 2023

Dear Mama God, Part 3 of Gendering God

After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately...

May 03, 2023

Gender Functions, Part 2 of Gendering God

The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift...

May 02, 2023

Exclusivity, Part 1 of Gendering God

Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal...

April 2023

April 19, 2023

Undoing, Part 2 of Resurrection as the Good News

Many who live in or stand in solidarity with oppressed communities have seen how destructive...

April 06, 2023

Mary at the Tomb, Part 3 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...

April 05, 2023

Resurrection, Part 2 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...

April 04, 2023

Good News, Part 1 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

February 2023

February 23, 2023

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 3 of 3)

Regarding sacrificing out humanity, we’ll need to interpret these stories differently than the original audience...

February 22, 2023

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 2 of 3)

"This concept often then turns into unhealthy passive acceptance and unhealthy forms of self-sacrifice having...

January 2023

January 19, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 2 of 3)

Whatever one decides to call it, we are talking about changes here and now, life-giving...

November 2022

November 04, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 3 of 3)

Today, we must ask whether our social institutions are being practiced in life-giving or death-dealing...

November 03, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 2 of 3)

This week’s reading challenges all our institutions, systems, and social structures including marriage.

November 01, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 1 of 3)

His response in each synoptic gospel is telling: and that response doesn’t seem to be...

August 2022

August 11, 2022

The Personal Cost of Causing Division (Part 3 of 3)

In the end, it’s about harm reduction and mitigation. It is the reality of this...