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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...

September 2023

September 21, 2023

Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 3

The foundational concern, the priority of highest value, is ensuring these workers have their needs...

September 20, 2023

Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 2

Equality is a theme, not only in the gospels, but also in the economic teachings...

September 19, 2023

Equality, Generosity and Concern for Workers’ Needs, Part 1

Ruskin lifts this parable out of religious interpretations created by privileged, propertied, and powerful religious...

May 2022

May 12, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 3 of 3)

When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...

May 11, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 2 of 3)

It includes the desire to make sure the objects of our love have what they...

May 10, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 1 of 3)

This kind of love, too, needs careful defining and explanation to be genuinely life giving...

February 2021

February 09, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 3

Jesus modeled listening to those who belong to oppressed communities, and going deeper through that...

February 03, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 2

What we are encountering in this gospel story today would today be called intersectionality.

February 01, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 1

This passage may be speaking about ways that oppressed and disinherited people can allow the...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 3)

These are questions worth wrestling with as we enter this new year.

January 21, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 2)

A return to social equity always feels like “loss” for those who are privileged and...

January 19, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 1)

This is the intrinsic reason why our collective thriving depends on raising up some in...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

A Just Future Begins Today

“Change can scare those benefitting from the present system no matter how unjust that system...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

The Ethic of Enemy Love (Part 2)

“This I believe is the genius of the ethic of enemy love that Jesus and...

January 24, 2020

The Ethic of Enemy Love (Part 1)

“First, this ethic does not mean that we should expect reconciliation without change or reparations...

January 20, 2020

Being Rejected By Family

"I don’t believe that this suffering is good and I don’t believe that we must...

January 17, 2020

When Equality Means Some Are Given More Than Others

Some may cry unfair when others receive more, yet if this “more than” is based...

January 15, 2020

We’re In This Together

"Today we have to ask which voices are we refusing to listen to? Which voices...

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...

January 08, 2020

Embracing Societal Justice Even When It’s Scary

What can we learn from the passages above? It’s a lamentation that applies to all...

January 06, 2020

The Last Will Be First

What would it look like for us to work toward a world shaped by equity,...

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....