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September 2026

September 09, 2026

An Old Story of Debt Cancellation

This story of debt cancellation challenges the idea that forgiveness means allowing injustice to continue....

September 08, 2026

Forgiveness: Healing or a Tool of Oppression?

Forgiveness can be a profound act of healing, but requiring forgiveness can itself become a...

February 2024

February 08, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 3

This story points to a life-giving path that informs us to take up the work...

February 07, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 2

He goes on to state the way apocalyptic literature was used in Mark’s culture to...

February 06, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 1

In this story, the early followers perceived teachings that would end oppression and establish justice...

February 01, 2024

Conduits of Healing and Liberation, Part 3

Evangelical Christianity today needs healing and liberation from possession by White supremacy, Christian nationalism, heteropatriarchy,...

January 2024

January 31, 2024

Conduits of Healing and Liberation, Part 2

It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined...

January 30, 2024

Conduits of Healing and Liberation, Part 1

It’s easy to read these healing stories supernaturally, but theses stories were originally intended to...

June 2023

June 15, 2023

A Kingdom, Part 3 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

Whatever we call it, this was about a world that is compassionate, safe, just home...

June 14, 2023

Justice, Part 2 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

The harvest was associated with justice, a vision of a world where no one had...

June 13, 2023

A Harvest, Part 1 of A Different Iteration of our Present World

A harvest metaphor makes a lot more sense given that context. In the Hebrew scriptures, the...

June 08, 2023

The Woman, Part 3 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

To Christians today who want to use political power to make it much more dangerous...

June 07, 2023

Jairus’ Daughter, Part 2 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

In this story, women’s reproductive ability is not their choice but governed by men to...

June 06, 2023

Healing, Part 1 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...

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...

October 2022

October 07, 2022

Trading Individualism for Community (Part 3 of 3)

Those of us from Western cultures have a lot we can learn from cultures that...

October 05, 2022

Trading Individualism for Community (Part 2 of 3)

It isolated them from a community-based system of survival to an individualistic mode of survival....

October 04, 2022

Trading Individualism for Community (Part 1 of 3)

Survival depended on belonging to a community comprised of a network of rural families and...

August 2022

August 26, 2022

The Bodies We Inhabit (Part 3 of 3)

To the degree that our communities are accessible to people whose bodies are different or...

August 25, 2022

The Bodies We Inhabit (Part 2 of 3)

These three themes . . . illustrate the theological obstacles encountered by people with disabilities...

August 23, 2022

The Bodies We Inhabit (Part 1 of 3)

This week's story involves humility and the inclusion of the marginalized, specifically people living in...

August 19, 2022

Our Collective Thriving (Part 3 of 3)

This week’s story also calls us to attend to things that enable all of us...

August 18, 2022

Our Collective Thriving (Part 2 of 3)

We still see in our communities some of us who can be very intentional about...

August 17, 2022

Our Collective Thriving (Part 1 of 3)

This story creates a tension of priorities, pitting people’s needs for thriving and not simply...

October 2021

October 21, 2021

Damage Mitigation Versus Changing the System (Part 3 of 3)

It’s not enough to remove the basis for people being treated as less-than. We must...

October 20, 2021

Damage Mitigation Versus Changing the System (Part 2 of 3)

Can we follow the values we have found to be life-giving in the Jesus story...

October 19, 2021

Damage Mitigation Versus Changing the System (Part 1 of 3)

Gospel stories like this one have repeatedly been the seed of society perceiving people with...

March 2020

March 20, 2020

We Are Not Just Passing Through

"Jesus modeled how we can be conduits of healing to this world, and we are...