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October 2026

October 07, 2026

A Wedding Banquet and Participating in Justice

Banquet attire in the story is a metaphor for participation. We may publicly claim to...

October 06, 2026

A Wedding Banquet and An Invitation to Justice

The parable of the wedding banquet reminds us that those who confront injustice have often...

May 2026

May 12, 2026

Luke’s Ascension Story and Our Justice Work Today

Luke’s ascension narrative demonstrates a common interpretive technique used during the contemporary time of the...

January 2026

January 15, 2026

Fishing for Societal Justice

Fishing here is not about rescuing the fish but about dragging predatory rulers grown fat...

January 14, 2026

The Gospel Jesus Preached and Justice

In the gospel Jesus preached within the stories, faithfulness to God is inseparable from justice...

January 13, 2026

Darkness Has Become A Harmful Metaphor

Interrogating the metaphor of darkness is not about banning poetic language but about recognizing how...

January 06, 2026

John’s Baptism as a Call for Justice

As the social location of Christianity changed and became united with the empire the justice...

December 2025

December 18, 2025

Good News from the Edges

In these stories, “the wilderness” symbolizes the edges of society. It represents those places far...

December 17, 2025

Good News for the Poor

A reliable litmus test for the gospel is whether it is truly good news to...

November 2025

November 28, 2025

The Liberation at the Heart of Advent

Advent calls us to participate in the beginning of a whole new world where injustice...

November 26, 2025

Advent as Ritual Reminder

Advent reminds us that if we don’t share the social location of the marginalized, we’re...

November 25, 2025

Advent and Reclaiming Our Humanity

This Advent passage concerns transitioning away from a world imagined as a predatory beast to...

October 2025

October 23, 2025

A Tax Collector, Economic Disparity and Justice

Our reading a humble tax collector embracing the call for wealth redistribution and poverty elimination,...

October 21, 2025

A Pharisee, a Tax Collector, and Justice

Anyone who cares about ending violence, including anit-Jewish violence, should reject using the label of...

October 09, 2025

The Story of the Ten Lepers and Christian Xenophobia

The story of the ten lepers communicates a similar lesson as the good Samaritan and...

October 08, 2025

Christianity and the Present Anti-Immigration Sentiment

Anti-Immigration sentiments of certain Christians stand stark contrast to the gospel mandate, "I was a...

October 07, 2025

Welcoming the Stranger and the Christian Xenophobia Crisis

This all stands in stark contrast to the xenophobia so many in our American society...

October 02, 2025

When Christian Interpretations Normalize Social Evils

This explains how certain sectors of Christianity have embraced xenophobic, fascist, and authoritarian elements in...

October 01, 2025

Holy Wrongs: The Sacred Normalization of Evil in Scripture

One of the dangers of readings like this is the normalization for Christians of evils...

September 2025

September 30, 2025

When the Bible Speaks of Slavery

I find this passage abhorrent. I offer no justification for slavery. Nor will I advocate...

August 2025

August 21, 2025

When Religious Institutions Obstruct Justice

Our reading this week is about tension between liberation and the way a religious institution...

August 20, 2025

Sabbath as Labor Justice

The Sabbath commandment also had a history in a kind of labor justice. In its...

August 19, 2025

Sabbath and Social Justice

Sabbath is a sacred day of rest and spiritual renewal that is also deeply connected...

June 2025

June 12, 2025

Harmonizing with the Gospels’ Justice Today

We can build on and expand the gospels' justice themes, harmonizing with and not getting...

June 11, 2025

Expanding the Gospels’ Justice Themes

Expanding Jesus' work of justice requires paying attention to how difference is used to justify...

June 10, 2025

Building on a Foundation of Justice

Justice teaches us to recognize how differences are used to make certain of our community...

January 2025

January 24, 2025

A Gospel of a New Social Order

So central was this call to create a new social order that the first generation...

January 23, 2025

A Gospel of Wealth Redistribution

The poor and economic justice were one of those themes. The kind of wealth redistribution...

January 22, 2025

A Gospel for Those in Poverty

Considering how many times Luke’s gospel mentions those living in poverty, it is no wonder...

March 2024

March 07, 2024

A Socially Engaged Gospel, part 3

You can’t love others and not care about being socially engaged in the areas they...