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August 2022

August 10, 2022

The Personal Cost of Causing Division (Part 2 of 3)

Our reading this week calls to mind times when we have also had to make...

August 09, 2022

The Personal Cost of Causing Division (Part 1 of 3)

The struggle in the story is with the economic, political, and social harm being committed...

July 2022

July 14, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 3 of 3)

Adults a generation from now will value those different from them according to the way...

July 13, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 2 of 3)

This is a strong message and should be weighed carefully by all Christian communities and...

July 12, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 1 of 3)

Mary chooses to transgress patriarchal, gender binary, gender role assumptions. The story also lauds her...

June 2022

June 02, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 3 of 3)

People of all genders should be able to see themselves as bearing the image of...

June 01, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 2 of 3)

This declaration specifically excludes women from the Imago Dei and justifies the exclusion by referring...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 1 of 3)

For Boyer, every other detail of the incarnation is incidental, but the fact that Jesus...

May 19, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 3 of 3)

The bodily autonomy of people in these communities is just the latest example of how...

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 14, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)

This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...

April 13, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 2 of 3)

These are valid questions. How can we reconcile seeing the cross event as a salvific...

April 12, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)

One thing that is common to all the gospel narratives is the presence of women...

April 07, 2022

A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 3 of 3)

How we celebrate rituals determines the kind of humans those rituals shape us into being....

April 06, 2022

A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 2 of 3)

This tradition has led quite a few modern Christians to reinterpret how they memorialize Jesus’...

March 2022

March 24, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 3 of 3)

As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...

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...

March 22, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...

March 09, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

This calls into question how we interpret Christian narratives of Jesus’ death and resurrection as...

March 01, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

For many Christians, this weekend marks the first weekend of Lent, which commemorates the 40...

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 09, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 3 of 3)

This story is, on the other hand, encouraging Jesus' followers to resist as he did...

September 08, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 2 of 3)

If you believe that acceptance of suffering gives life, then your resources for confronting perpetrators...

September 07, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 1 of 3)

Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of “taking up one’s cross” to prioritize themselves...

September 02, 2021

Openness to Change (3 of 3)

We can choose in these moments, not to get defensive, but to apologize when our...

September 01, 2021

Openness to Change (2 of 3)

The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

Openness to Change ( 1 of 3)

This story offers a lot to us in the context of our own blinkered ways...

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...