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March 2026

March 26, 2026

State Violence and Sacred Resistance

We are left in the wake of state violence and a guard posted at a...

March 25, 2026

A Shared Meal and Betrayal

Betrayal hurts deeply because it comes from those we believed stood beside us. Our narrative...

March 24, 2026

Justice Lessons from the Final Scenes of the Gospel Stories

The final scenes offer profound lessons for justice work today. They highlights the dynamics of...

April 2025

April 16, 2025

Life and Living Not Death and Dying

Marginalized communities have spent years critiquing theologies that center on death rather than how life...

April 16, 2025

Original Good News Was About a Resurrection Not a Cross

The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christianity for two millennia. The original...

April 11, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 3

Whatever we make of the resurrection stories today, resurrection speaks of stories not over yet. ...

April 10, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 2

Resurrection speaks that hate, injustice, bigotry, power and privilege don’t have to have the last...

April 09, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 1

They did not see their salvation as accomplished through the cross. They saw the resurrection...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 3

The good news is that hate doesn’t have the last word. We can choose love...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 2

Whatever we make of these reports today, the lessons in these stories’ emphasis are not...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 1

The original good news of the gospel was not that someone had died. It was...

April 2023

April 06, 2023

Mary at the Tomb, Part 3 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...

April 05, 2023

Resurrection, Part 2 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...

April 04, 2023

Good News, Part 1 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

Palm Sunday and a Contrast of Values, Part 3 of On the Foal of a Donkey

This Palm Sunday, we are reminded that life still triumphs over death, love triumphs over...

March 29, 2023

Palm Sunday Ethics, Part 2 of On the Foal of a Donkey

As we read from Matthew this week for Palm Sunday, our work must then go...

March 28, 2023

Politics of Palm Sunday, Part 1 of On the Foal of a Donkey

Words matter. Often today when Christians read this word they read it as a purely...

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 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 3)

God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 2)

The book of Acts offers just one example of this alternative focus and emphasis; the...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 1)

The good news was not that Jesus died, or even that he died for you....

March 25, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 3)

We could choose to be last in line to oppose those progressive visions for American...

March 24, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 2)

Jesus was crucified by Rome not because he was starting a new religion, but because...

March 23, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 1)

Not one conception in Jewish history fits Luke’s description of how Mary conceived Jesus. But...

March 19, 2021

Reinterpreting the Easter Story (Part 3)

Let’s not ask ourselves how we can die. Jesus doesn’t call a person do die,...

March 17, 2021

Reinterpreting the Easter Story (Part 2)

"The central image of Christ on the cross as the savior of the world communicates...

March 16, 2021

Reinterpreting the Easter Story (Part 1)

Certain interpretations of these passages have born destructive and even death-dealing fruit in these communities....

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Why Resurrection

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