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September 2020

September 23, 2020

Jesus and Law and Order (Part 2 of 3)

Jesus’ solidarity with those on the margins reached a critical breaking point with Jesus’ protest...

September 22, 2020

Jesus and Law and Order (Part 1 of 3)

Jesus here is announcing that God’s just future is decidedly for those the present system...

September 18, 2020

What a Just Future Requires (Part 3 of 3)

Although everyone was invited to the event in the parable of Matthew 22, the event...

September 16, 2020

What a Just Future Requires (Part 2 of 3)

Throughout U.S. history, the elites have repeatedly fanned the flames of racially charged bigotry to...

September 15, 2020

What a Just Future Requires (Part 1 of 3)

I used to interpret this parable differently than I do today. When we read this...

September 11, 2020

Not Everyone Is In Need (Part 3 of 3)

The rhetoric and movement of Black Lives Matter is the same preferential option for the...

September 09, 2020

Not Everyone Is In Need (Part 2 of 3)

The word preferential denotes a preference. Option denotes a deliberate choice to stand with one...

September 08, 2020

Not Everyone Is In Need (Part 1 of 3)

This is the ethic of preference or priority we see in the passage above from...

September 03, 2020

Enough for Us All (Part 3 of 3)

There is enough manna for everyone. It belongs to all of us, as a gift....

September 02, 2020

Enough for Us All (Part 2 of 3)

Our hope for the future is in our ability to cooperate with one another to...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Enough for Us All (Part 1 of 3)

Though oppressors often claim “God is on our side,” the God of this Genesis story...

August 27, 2020

A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 3 of 3)

Each day, with the choices we make, we are shaping the kind of earth we...

August 26, 2020

A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 2 of 3)

Today we are still called not to be passive in regards to the injustice, oppression,...

August 25, 2020

A Pebble Cast Into a Pond (Part 1 of 3)

Jesus stood in the Hebrew prophetic justice tradtion: that tradition and hope was grounded here...

August 21, 2020

Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Faith in Jesus that is not aligned with social justice in its many expressions or...

August 19, 2020

Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 2 of 3)

Not only does this definition fit Jesus and how he related to marginalized people in...

August 17, 2020

Saltless Salt and Social Justice (Part 1 of 3)

What does it mean for those who claim to be followers of Jesus to lose...

August 14, 2020

Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 3 of 3)

The story calls us to begin by identifying our oppressive political, economic, and religious systems...

August 12, 2020

Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 2 of 3)

As Jesus followers today, the gospel we tell must locate Jesus among our oppressed siblings,...

August 11, 2020

Social Liberation in the Jesus Story (Part 1 of 3)

Their focus was very much on this present world, and the gospels showed a Jesus...

August 07, 2020

The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 3 of 3)

Life can also conquer death today if we will choose it. Our political, economic, and...

August 05, 2020

The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 2 of 3)

The resurrection is not a scientific declaration of a person coming back to life. It’s...

August 03, 2020

The Social Truth of Resurrection (Part 1 of 3)

I don’t believe that triumph is automatic. We have to choose life and life-giving ways...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 3 of 3)

When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of...

July 29, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 2 of 3)

As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences...

July 28, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 1 of 3)

The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values...

July 23, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the...

July 22, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)

This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the...

July 21, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic...

July 16, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 3 of 3)

I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus...