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July 2026

July 23, 2026

Old Wisdom, New Applications

Honoring the wisdom of those gone before us, honesty about where those in the past...

July 22, 2026

Parables of Justice, Compassion, and Inclusion

These stories challenges us to plant seeds of justice by standing against inequality, caring for...

June 2026

June 10, 2026

When Compassion Leads to Action

Justice requires action, not mere sympathy. It involves confronting harm wherever it appears. Compassion without...

February 2024

February 08, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 3

This story points to a life-giving path that informs us to take up the work...

February 07, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 2

He goes on to state the way apocalyptic literature was used in Mark’s culture to...

February 06, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 1

In this story, the early followers perceived teachings that would end oppression and establish justice...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 3

That hope is grounded in the reality that we can face those challenges together in...

November 29, 2023

Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 2

Advent would've been a hard sell to say God’s just future had come. They could...

November 28, 2023

Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 1

The word advent means arrival. In the gospels we hear both the announcement that hope...

October 2023

October 26, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 3

If our ideas of God’s love doesn’t also address love of neighbor in very real,...

October 25, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 2

This interpretive lens has lots of history in Jewish wisdom. It is most often attributed...

October 24, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 1

Love of neighbor meant something specific. Social justice circles today often say that social justice...

February 2023

February 02, 2023

Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 3 of 3)

In our own era today, we desperately need to transition to more loving, compassionate, and...

February 01, 2023

Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 2 of 3)

Safe-for-everyone interpretations and practices means change when immense harm has been done by a traditional...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 1 of 3)

Safe-for-everyone means that we can do with the Jesus story today what those in the...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Seeing Others As Part of Ourselves (Part 3 of 3)

We are extensions of each other, and part of the same human family. What affects...

October 27, 2021

Seeing Others As Part of Ourselves (Part 2 of 3)

"This passage both to affirms Judaism and critiques more regressive and fundamentalist forms of Christianity,...

October 26, 2021

Seeing Others As Part of Ourselves (Part 1 of 3)

Many today tout loving your neighbor as a religious tenet, but this passage shows it...

July 2020

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...

July 15, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 2 of 3)

"This passage is also the very passage Jesus quoted as he demonstrated against his own...

July 13, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 1 of 3)

So the passage in Matthew isn’t about using the term “fool,” but about mislabelling as...

July 09, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 3 of 3)

Personally and systemically, our hope as a species is in discovering more effective ways of...

July 08, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 2 of 3)

In the gospels, we see a vision of God’s just future where human communities are...

July 06, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 1 of 3)

What does it look like for Jesus followers to create ways of organizing communities that...

July 02, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 3 of 3)

“Every generation faces these inflexible alternatives, transformation or eventual implosion—these are the inflexible alternatives before...

July 01, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 2 of 3)

"He was not rejected by the people. He was silenced by the powerful and elite...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 1 of 3)

Today’s climate for those deemed essential workers during our present pandemic is similar. As the...

June 19, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Peace through a militarized quelling of unrest is not peace, but a lull waiting for...

June 17, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 2 of 3)

This is where the path of systemic injustice pressed down too long by militarized force...

June 15, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 1 of 3)

What we have here is two paths toward peace. One was enforced by militarized power...