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July 2026

July 29, 2026

When Faith Communities Engage Social Challenges

This story challenges faith communities to resist the temptation to distance themselves from social problems.

July 28, 2026

Justice Lessons from the Feeding of the Five Thousand

The lessons here are derived form contrasting individualistic solutions versus a collective response and pulling...

July 12, 2024

Embracing our Dependency, Part 3

The very first test was one of dependency. How would they respond to one on...

July 11, 2024

Embracing our Dependency, Part 2

Independence, individualism, and a resistance to being told what to do came face to face...

July 10, 2024

Embracing our Dependency, Part 1

This is not a plan of individualism, or a plan of self-reliance or self-sufficiency. This...

July 13, 2023

Community, Part 3 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth

These examples of community are deeply committed to democracy and also have strong social commitments...

July 12, 2023

Sharing, Part 2 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth

Every member of the community held a mutual commitment, sharing what they could to ensure...

July 11, 2023

Obstruction, Part 1 of The Deceitfulness of Wealth

Of all the temptations that could have been mentioned, the obstruction and deceitfulness of wealth...

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...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

The Gospel of Interdependence (Part 3 of 3)

This calls us to reassess the social waters we swim in. It encourages interdependence rather...

June 29, 2022

The Gospel of Interdependence (Part 2 of 3)

We deeply need to reconnect with the reality that we are part of one another....

June 28, 2022

The Gospel of Interdependence (Part 1 of 3)

These itinerant workers were to be characterized by dependence, not independence, connectedness as contrasted with...

January 2022

January 06, 2022

Jesus’ Baptism as Social Protest (Part 3 of 3)

This makes me wonder what our baptism-like rituals today are. How do we, too, publicly...

January 05, 2022

Jesus’ Baptism as Social Protest (Part 2 of 3)

John's baptism invited people to denounce injustice, to cleanse the canvas so to speak for...

January 04, 2022

Jesus’ Baptism as Social Protest (Part 1 of 3)

The one “in whom I am well pleased” was to be associated with the world...

April 2021

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...

April 14, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 2)

The kind of repentance that leads to that kind of forgiveness, then, is a social...

April 12, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 1)

The gospels’ post resurrection appearance stories follow a familiar pattern that meets the expectations of...

March 2020

March 11, 2020

The “Kingdom of God” is within You

This individualistic interpretation makes the kingdom abstract. It does not address systemic injustice, oppression, or...

August 2019

August 12, 2019

Responses of Passive Apathy

Change doesn’t have to come through such violent upheaval. It could start today. Here. Now....

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Our Communal Interdependence Versus Individualistic Independence

Let’s lean more deeply into our shared lives. Let’s find ways relevant for our world...