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January 2024

January 25, 2024

Exorcism of a Man with an Unclean Spirit, Part 3

This specific in augural exorcism story in Mark's gospel would have been read systematically and...

January 24, 2024

Exorcism of a Man with an Unclean Spirit, Part 2

The framing of this first exorcism story gives us a hint that we should interpret...

January 23, 2024

Exorcism of a Man with an Unclean Spirit, Part 1

The exorcism stories in the gospels were not written to answer our modern scientific questions....

June 2023

June 01, 2023

The Sermon on the Mount, Part 3 of Obeying What Jesus Taught

What are some of these commands that Matthew’s Jesus tells us to obey? The lion...

May 2023

May 31, 2023

An Exchange, Part 2 of Obeying What Jesus Taught

Change is a two way street, an exchange. Those we meet, share with, and listen...

May 30, 2023

The Great Commission, Part 1 of Obeying What Jesus Taught

We must be honest about how this passage has been coopted by colonialism that has...

September 2022

September 29, 2022

Faith and Political Harm (Part 3 of 3)

These stories cared about the concrete harm being done to the marginalized and exploited. Today,...

September 28, 2022

Faith and Political Harm (Part 2 of 3)

Peasants could not imagine a world without feudalism. We find it difficult to imagine a...

September 27, 2022

Faith and Political Harm (Part 1 of 3)

"To hear this parable, however, we must again remove some of the Christian theological wax...

February 2022

February 03, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 3 of 3)

This story places people before profit—especially people who are being harmed, marginalized, excluded, and killed.

February 02, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 2 of 3)

In several Hebrew scriptures, fishing for people was about hooking or catching a certain kind...

February 01, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 1 of 3)

This interpretation has made Christian missionary efforts vulnerable to being coopted by European and later...

November 2019

November 13, 2019

Complicit Christianity

If true, this calls for Christianity to wrest itself free of its historical failures, to...

October 2019

October 14, 2019

It’s Easier to Build Monuments

It is easier to build monuments than to work toward the kind of world these...

August 2019

August 09, 2019

Reading Jesus from the Margins

For many, only when they discover for themselves the Jesus in the story from the...

July 2019

July 01, 2019

Privilege and Power

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June 2019

June 24, 2019

The Gospels’ Fruit Test

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