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September 2026

September 16, 2026

The First Shall Be Last

Justice can mean more than giving everyone an equal chance. It can mean people with...

September 15, 2026

The Last Shall Be First

The story ultimately imagines an economy organized around human need rather than human competition where...

September 25, 2025

While Lazarus Starves: A Gospel of Economic Injustice

The Lazarus story doesn't asks us to care about our experience in an afterlife, but...

September 24, 2025

Economic Justice and the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Details of this story also offer a powerful message about economic justice, critiquing wealth inequality...

November 2023

November 16, 2023

Reaping What Is Sown, Part 3

If we sow the wind, we will be reaping the whirlwind. But we can instead...

November 15, 2023

Reaping What Is Sown, Part 2

Injustice is unsustainable for the long term. Ancient wisdom in multiple traditions tell us we...

November 14, 2023

Reaping What Is Sown, Part 1

This would contrast starkly with how reaping and sowing are typically interpreted in these stories.

October 2023

October 05, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 3

The Jewish crowds would not have loved Jesus if this parable taught they were being...

October 04, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 2

The crowds would have heard this parable of the vineyard differently than the elites and...

October 03, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 1

The crowds would have heard this parable of the vineyard differently than the elites and...

September 2023

September 14, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 3 of Seventy Times Seven

I've heard many Christians voices over the last two years weigh in on the subject...

September 13, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 2 of Seventy Times Seven

What once involved the debt forgiveness toward poor debtors became universalized. Social location was no...

September 12, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 1 of Seventy Times Seven

This was not a call for the indebted to forgive their abusive creditors, but for...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

Life Abundant, Part 3 of Fulness of Life for Everyone

It is important to remember that this abundant living doesn’t come at the expense of...

April 26, 2023

A Sheep Gate, Part 2 of Fulness of Life for Everyone

It symbolizes their version of Jesus as a “sheep gate” through which legitimate shepherds would...

April 25, 2023

A Shepherd, Part 1 of Fulness of Life for Everyone

The shepherd was not a private, individual, or spiritual image in the Jewish tradition as...

April 20, 2023

Good News, Part 3 of Resurrection as the Good News

They may interrupt our work of shaping our world into a safe home for all,...

April 19, 2023

Undoing, Part 2 of Resurrection as the Good News

Many who live in or stand in solidarity with oppressed communities have seen how destructive...

April 18, 2023

Reversal, Part 1 of Resurrection as the Good News

For the early Jesus followers, the good news was not that Jesus had died, or...

April 13, 2023

That Which is Life Giving, Part 3 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

This week’s reading is also a good reminder to choose that which is life giving...

April 12, 2023

Loosing and Binding, Part 2 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

Both loosing and binding can be life-giving or death-dealing. We must practice informed wisdom that...

April 11, 2023

Commission Stories, Part 1 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

Each of these commission stories are separate, each told for the distinct purposes of the...

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...

March 23, 2023

A Story of Hope, Part 3 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice 

This is an ancient story of hope. Today, we still need hope that our best...

March 22, 2023

Apocalypticism and John’s Jesus, Part 2 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice Series

Jewish apocalyptic teaching included the belief that at some future point, all injustice, violence, and...