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June 2026

June 18, 2026

Not Peace But a Sword

In this context, the “sword” is not physical violence but recognition that the pursuit of...

June 17, 2026

Speaking Truth About Injustice

Our reading this week challenges communities today to speak truth about injustice even when doing...

April 2024

April 11, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 3

Whatever we make of the resurrection stories today, resurrection speaks of stories not over yet. ...

April 10, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 2

Resurrection speaks that hate, injustice, bigotry, power and privilege don’t have to have the last...

April 09, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 1

They did not see their salvation as accomplished through the cross. They saw the resurrection...

August 2023

August 31, 2023

What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean, Part 3

How we define bearing a cross makes a difference in how we respond to injustice...

August 31, 2023

Speaking Out, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 2

This is a far cry from counseling early followers to passively bear injustice, but a...

August 29, 2023

Participation, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 1

For better or worse, they interpreted the cross in terms of participation not substitution or...

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...

March 17, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 3 of 3)

Democratic societies must be made to birth a distributively just society where the needs of...

March 16, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 2 of 3)

This is a good time to pause and reflect on how injustice is unsustainable in...

March 15, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 1 of 3)

I don’t hear the moralistic idea of repentance so many of us are used to...

September 2021

September 09, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 3 of 3)

This story is, on the other hand, encouraging Jesus' followers to resist as he did...

September 08, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 2 of 3)

If you believe that acceptance of suffering gives life, then your resources for confronting perpetrators...

September 07, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 1 of 3)

Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of “taking up one’s cross” to prioritize themselves...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

A Just Future Begins Today

“Change can scare those benefitting from the present system no matter how unjust that system...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

The Kind of Resurrection I Want No Part Of

A resurrection that doesn’t follow standing with those on the undersides and edges of society...

January 22, 2020

Taking Up One’s Cross and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering

When those in power choose to threaten crosses for those standing up to systemic injustice,...

December 2019

December 02, 2019

Stand Up Anyway

I don’t believe that we must pass through fire and sword to get to a...

November 2019

November 18, 2019

“On Earth As It Is In Heaven”

It called people to stop solving the challenges of survival for themselves at the expense...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Oppressors Who Once Needed Liberation Themselves

"In very general terms, this is a saying that warns about reality after liberation becoming...

June 2019

June 14, 2019

When Doing the Right Thing Is Illegal

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June 07, 2019

Catching Big Fish

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