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2025-05-07T11:22:30-04:00

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Imagery of a Shepherd and the Restoration of Justice

Last updated on: May 7, 2025 at 11:22 am By Herb Montgomery

The imagery of a shepherd was used to communicate safety, distributive justice, and peace. It was life and life in its fullest expression. Read more

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Politics and Religion

2025-05-02T11:33:21-04:00

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Feed My Sheep: Justice Is Sacred Work

Last updated on: May 2, 2025 at 11:33 am By Herb Montgomery

Working for people’s material, physical, concrete daily needs (such as feeding people and other justice works) is sacred, holy work. Read more

General Christian

Politics and Religion

2025-05-01T10:03:26-04:00

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Fishing for People and Overturning Systems of Injustice

Last updated on: May 1, 2025 at 10:03 am By Herb Montgomery

Fishing for people was a summons to working folk to join him in overturning the unjust structures of power and privilege in their world. Read more

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2025-04-30T19:45:54-04:00

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Justice Lessons from Post-Resurrection Bread and Fish

Last updated on: April 30, 2025 at 7:45 pm By Herb Montgomery

Uniquely, this version of a bread and fish story is placed after the resurrection. Bread and fish are tied to justice. Read more

General Christian

Politics and Religion

2025-04-24T12:16:36-04:00

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Sent for Liberation, Justice and Love

Last updated on: April 24, 2025 at 12:16 pm By Herb Montgomery

As Jesus was sent into our world, so we have been sent. But our sending has often born a different kind of result. Read more

General Christian

Politics and Religion

2025-04-24T12:16:32-04:00

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Lessons from the Different Great Commissions

Last updated on: April 24, 2025 at 12:16 pm By Herb Montgomery

In Luke the commission is about justice for the oppressed. In John it includes binding and releasing, forgiving and not. Read more

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Politics and Religion

2025-04-23T16:42:55-04:00

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Lessons from John’s Post Resurrection Stories

Last updated on: April 23, 2025 at 4:42 pm By Herb Montgomery

The post resurrection appearance stories of the Jesus tradition were very important to the early church, and they served a purpose. Read more

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2025-04-22T09:07:11-04:00

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Resurrection Is Resistance, Not Redemption by Suffering

Last updated on: April 22, 2025 at 9:07 am By Herb Montgomery

The earliest form of the good news, that we still need today, is not that death brings life. But that injustice doesn't have the last word. Read more

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2025-04-17T09:39:17-04:00

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Life and Living Not Death and Dying

Last updated on: April 17, 2025 at 9:39 am By Herb Montgomery

Marginalized communities have spent years critiquing theologies that center on death rather than how life triumphed in undoing that death. Read more

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Myth of Redemptive Suffering

2025-04-16T18:05:36-04:00

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Original Good News Was About a Resurrection Not a Cross

Last updated on: April 16, 2025 at 6:05 pm By Herb Montgomery

The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christianity for two millennia. The original good news was not a cross. It was a resurrection. Read more

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