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July 2026

July 23, 2026

Old Wisdom, New Applications

Honoring the wisdom of those gone before us, honesty about where those in the past...

July 22, 2026

Parables of Justice, Compassion, and Inclusion

These stories challenges us to plant seeds of justice by standing against inequality, caring for...

August 2025

August 28, 2025

Jesus, Equity and Inclusion

What is really triggering modern-day opponents is how equity and inclusion challenges long-standing imbalances of...

August 27, 2025

A Moral Compass Within

For some people, their own moral compass is all they need to navigate life. It's...

August 26, 2025

The Politics of Humility: When Virtue Masks Control

Humility can be weaponized by oppressors to keep the oppressed submissive. It can also be...

July 2025

July 14, 2025

Learning to Embrace Our Differences

Differences are often the first things we notice. They can shape our assumptions and interactions,...

July 09, 2025

The Good Samaritan and Embracing Diversity

The story of the good Samaritan reminds us we can choose to make our differences...

July 08, 2025

Who Is My Neighbor?

He asked, “And who is my neighbor?" This ancient story only appears here and it...

October 2023

October 12, 2023

A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 3

All are invited, and not all are welcome. To be welcome at the table, you...

October 11, 2023

A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 2

This banquet parable draws our attention to those in our society who are marginalized, excluded,...

October 10, 2023

All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 1

The parable of this wedding banquet is not about heaven, but a call to return...

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...

May 2023

May 04, 2023

Dear Mama God, Part 3 of Gendering God

After two millennia of exclusively gendering God as male, we don’t get to jump immediately...

May 03, 2023

Gender Functions, Part 2 of Gendering God

The images we use for God can work inclusively when we use symbols to lift...

May 02, 2023

Exclusivity, Part 1 of Gendering God

Every faith tradition has teachings that are life-giving and those that are not. The goal...

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...

May 2021

May 06, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 3)

We can explore ways that understanding Universal love that lead us, not to private, assured...

May 05, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 2)

Love that only leaves the privileged in a conscience-appeased state so they can sleep better...

May 04, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 1)

There is a way to teach God’s love that is complicit in oppression and harmful...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 3)

I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....

April 29, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 2)

Although the passage we began with focuses on bearing fruit rather than being a dead...

April 28, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 1)

After almost two centuries of Christian patriarchy gendering God as exclusively male, we must recognize...

April 22, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 3)

When we choose to make justice ultimately win, not just in isolated occurrences but systemically,...

April 21, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 2)

This story that so many White Christians hold dear puts God on the side of...

April 20, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 1)

Even today when you do a simple image search for Jesus, you’ll get ten or...

April 15, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 3)

It’s a story that is intended to awaken in us the choice to shape a...