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November 2023

November 02, 2023

Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 3

Why aren’t our faith communities more egalitarian? Today we have all manner of escalating positions...

November 01, 2023

Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 2

This critiques those seeking political power rather than doing the work required to bring about...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

Ignored Egalitarian Themes of the Gospels, Part 1

He was not starting a new religion, but a Jewish renewal movement, calling his listeners...

October 26, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 3

If our ideas of God’s love doesn’t also address love of neighbor in very real,...

October 25, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 2

This interpretive lens has lots of history in Jewish wisdom. It is most often attributed...

October 24, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 1

Love of neighbor meant something specific. Social justice circles today often say that social justice...

October 19, 2023

Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 3

This means to know the difference between our obligations to Caesar and to understand our...

October 18, 2023

Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 2

These two claims were diametrically opposed to each other such that one could not honor...

October 17, 2023

Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 1

Life-giving interpretations of this story depend on considering some historical context of the claims of...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 3

There is a lesson in this for us. Don’t get side tracked or distracted by...

September 27, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 2

He doesn’t waste time defending his right to speak out or his right to exist....

September 26, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 1

We glean wisdom here as we stand in solidarity with the those in underprivileged social...

September 14, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 3 of Seventy Times Seven

I've heard many Christians voices over the last two years weigh in on the subject...

September 13, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 2 of Seventy Times Seven

What once involved the debt forgiveness toward poor debtors became universalized. Social location was no...

September 12, 2023

Debt Forgiveness, Part 1 of Seventy Times Seven

This was not a call for the indebted to forgive their abusive creditors, but for...

September 07, 2023

Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 3

How do we relate to those with whom we have significant differences and which whom...

September 06, 2023

Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 2

Regardless of its origins, our reading this week does contain a nugget of wisdom within...

September 05, 2023

Relating to Those with Whom We Disagree Part 1

They were grappling with how to relate to fellow community members making choices with which...

August 2023

August 10, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 3

Working for social change, whether within faith communities or outside of them, can be hard...

August 09, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 2

As strange as this story may be to us today, it would not have been...

August 08, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 1

First, let’s acknowledge how strange a story like this is to our post-enlightenment, science informed...

June 2023

June 22, 2023

Sustainable, Part 3 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

"What does this passage have to say about how sustainable our system today is, both...

June 21, 2023

Gehenna, Part 2 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

This language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context, rather than in a modern Christian...

June 20, 2023

Gehenna, Part 1 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

Let’s try to hear this language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context rather than...

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...

May 2023

May 11, 2023

Ethics and Values, Part 3 of Loving What Jesus Taught

Considering the ethics and values within the Jesus story, loving Jesus means actually loving the...

May 10, 2023

Advocacy, Part 2 of Loving What Jesus Taught

For the original audiences of the synoptics, “advocate” would have called to mind a deep...

May 09, 2023

Advocate, Part 1 of Loving What Jesus Taught

I grew up hearing Christians interpret the Advocate as an intermediary interposing between sinful humans...