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April 2026

April 02, 2026

Life After the Cross: A Gospel Begins with Women at a Tomb

Centering the gospel in resurrection rather than death and dying follows the original witness first...

April 01, 2026

An Invitation to the Same Solidarity

Easter invites us to align ourselves in that same solidarity, to resist systems that crucify,...

March 2026

March 31, 2026

Social Implications of Resurrection

Empires are not permanent or unquestionable. Resurrection stores in the context of State violence carry...

November 2023

November 02, 2023

Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 3

Why aren’t our faith communities more egalitarian? Today we have all manner of escalating positions...

November 01, 2023

Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 2

This critiques those seeking political power rather than doing the work required to bring about...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 1

He was not starting a new religion, but a Jewish renewal movement, calling his listeners...

July 2023

July 27, 2023

Old and New, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 3

When what we thought was life-giving turns out not to be, we can hold on...

July 26, 2023

Mustard and Yeast, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 2

In the stories, it threatened the status quo and was deemed as yeast, a corrupting...

July 25, 2023

The Kingdom, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 1

Ironically, kingdom imagery was intended to help the church replace any earthly “king,” and make...

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...

January 2023

January 20, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 3 of 3)

Healing justice can still liberate today as it did in some of our most sacred,...

January 19, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 2 of 3)

Whatever one decides to call it, we are talking about changes here and now, life-giving...

January 18, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 1 of 3)

This impacts how we talk about the Bible’s use of light and darkness, too. We...

July 2020

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...

January 2020

January 13, 2020

When Pride Isn’t “Sinful” But About Equality

"If a person is already being shamed and humiliated, they are already experiencing humiliation from...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

Economic Justice and Jesus’ Straight and Narrow

“Aristotle also saw this same truth: ‘Poverty is the cause of the defects of democracy....

November 2019

November 11, 2019

Stop Drinking The Kool-Aid

"For those at the top of an exploitative social pyramid who are privileged, advantaged, and...

August 2019

August 19, 2019

Listening to Those on the Margins and the Gendering of God

We can listen to the most vulnerable. We can hear from their experiences whether or...

June 2019

June 05, 2019

Mimicking the Compassionate Action of a Mother-Father God

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May 2019

May 30, 2019

Impartial Love

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May 29, 2019

Jesus, Judaism, and Anti-Semitism

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May 22, 2019

Loving Our Enemies

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