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August 2023

August 17, 2023

A Canaanite Woman, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 3

She also uses his language against him to show him how blinkered his understanding is.

August 16, 2023

Grow and Learn, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 2

This sounds a lot like the way all of us grow and learn: through experience...

August 15, 2023

It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong, Part 1

This is important to name because using this term as a pejorative slur is historically...

March 2022

March 24, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 3 of 3)

As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...

March 23, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 2 of 3)

"Sinner" was the pejorative label that those at the center of Jesus society used to...

March 22, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...

February 2022

February 10, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 3 of 3)

We can choose to bend the arc of the universe toward justice for everyone. That...

February 09, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 2 of 3)

If the elite and privileged all speak well of you, then chances are this week’s...

February 08, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 1 of 3)

Just because you’re being criticized doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the right track, and being...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 3 of 3)

In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...

June 23, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 2 of 3)

But the story actually prioritizes and centers this marginalized woman over the named, male, synagogue...

June 22, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 1 of 3)

The contrasting social locations of these recipients of Jesus’ work is one of the most...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

Transforming Communities Built on Exclusion (Part 3 of 3)

Mark’s Jesus narrative offers a Jesus who has come not to destroy us or who...

December 02, 2020

Transforming Communities Built on Exclusion (Part 2 of 3)

Because the story seeks the root causes of why people are marginalized, there is no...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Transforming Communities Built on Exclusion (Part 1 of 3)

One possible interpretation of these stories is to understand them as drawing attention to those...

January 2020

January 20, 2020

Being Rejected By Family

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

December 2019

December 23, 2019

Being Left Out of a World Shaped by Inclusion

“In the new world that we are shaping, if any are left in “outer darkness,”...

November 2019

November 15, 2019

A Gospel About Jesus Versus the Gospel Jesus Taught

One thread in Jewish tradition enlarged this hope and applied it not only to the...

November 08, 2019

Biblical Inclusion Versus Biblical Exclusion

“What is our relation, as followers of Jesus, to the marginalized of our day? To...

June 2019

June 21, 2019

Challenging Exclusion

“It’s not enough to simply offer a gospel that only offers divine forgiveness of sins....

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Jesus, Judaism, and Anti-Semitism

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