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January 2023

January 10, 2023

The Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)

It is helpful to understand some of the political context in which this passage was...

January 06, 2023

Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 3 of 3)

Yet once you see the social emphasis of the gospel stories, it’s really hard to...

January 05, 2023

Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 2 of 3)

These societal injustices could have been things such as complicity with Empire, injustice toward the...

January 04, 2023

Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 1 of 3)

All of these connections to liberation and justice would have been made by those who...

December 2022

December 22, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 3 of 3)

When it comes to those pushed to the undersides and edges of our society, this...

December 21, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 2 of 3)

The angel doesn’t appear to the ruling class, but to rural shepherds, who we’d call...

December 20, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 1 of 3)

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks...

December 16, 2022

Advent and the Arrival of a Safer World for Everyone (Part 3 of 3)

Can ethics in the Jesus story, such as solidarity with the marginalized, still promise a...

December 15, 2022

Advent and the Arrival of a Safer World for Everyone (Part 2 of 3)

"An ever-repeating theme of these Jewish liberation narratives is that YHWH stands in solidarity with...

December 14, 2022

Advent and the Arrival of a Safer World for Everyone (Part 1 of 3)

Many scholars believe the stories about Jesus’ birth and infancy in Matthew and Luke were...

December 08, 2022

The Love and Justice of Advent (Part 2 of 3)

We can acknowledge how the ableism in our gospels stories has born harmful fruit, and...

December 07, 2022

The Love and Justice of Advent (Part 1 of 3)

Love is a traditional theme during Advent. In the gospels, love holds the most concrete...

December 01, 2022

Advent and Coming Justice (Part 3 of 3)

May all things death-dealing be burned up like chaff with fire that cannot be quenched....

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Advent and Coming Justice (Part 2 of 3)

Change comes from the bottom up and outside in. To put it in our language...

November 29, 2022

Advent and Coming Justice (Part 1 of 3)

The margins are the places where liberation faith and hope are renewed and where change...

November 25, 2022

The Beginning of Advent (Part 3 of 3)

I understand why a reversal would have resonated with the original audience of our passage,...

November 23, 2022

The Beginning of Advent (Part 2 of 3)

Herb Montgomery, director of Renewed Heart Ministries, is an author and adult religious re-educator helping...

November 22, 2022

The Beginning of Advent (Part 1 of 3)

In this Advent narrative, all violence, injustice, and imperial oppression is finally answered for as...

November 17, 2022

Crosses and Resurrections (Part 3 of 3)

Life can overcome death. Love can overcome hate. Justice and compassion can overcome wrongs even...

November 16, 2022

Crosses and Resurrections (Part 2 of 3)

The story we read this week is ultimately a story of hope, a story of...

November 15, 2022

Crosses and Resurrections (Part 1 of 3)

In the story, the crucifixion was an unjust act of state violence, an act God...

November 11, 2022

Practicing Honesty Regarding Harmful Forms of Christianity (Part 3 of 3)

We need to be honest about the harm we have done in the past, and...

November 10, 2022

Practicing Honesty Regarding Harmful Forms of Christianity (Part 2 of 3)

This passage in the lectionary gives us the opportunity to talk about the harm that...

November 08, 2022

Practicing Honesty Regarding Harmful Forms of Christianity (Part 1 of 3)

Through these stories, anti-Jewishness could grow into these passages and interpretations of these passages that...

November 04, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 3 of 3)

Today, we must ask whether our social institutions are being practiced in life-giving or death-dealing...

November 03, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 2 of 3)

This week’s reading challenges all our institutions, systems, and social structures including marriage.

November 01, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 1 of 3)

His response in each synoptic gospel is telling: and that response doesn’t seem to be...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Choosing the Common Good (Part 3 of 3)

Our doing better is not an act of charity. It’s the work of reclaiming our...

October 26, 2022

Choosing the Common Good (Part 2 of 3)

We must read this week’s story within this context. This backdrop also gives new insights...

October 25, 2022

Choosing the Common Good (Part 1 of 3)

We miss a lot in this story if we don’t understand it in terms of...