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February 2022

February 03, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 3 of 3)

This story places people before profit—especially people who are being harmed, marginalized, excluded, and killed.

February 02, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 2 of 3)

In several Hebrew scriptures, fishing for people was about hooking or catching a certain kind...

February 01, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 1 of 3)

This interpretation has made Christian missionary efforts vulnerable to being coopted by European and later...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Jesus and Antisemitism (Part 3 of 3)

We don’t have to disparage Jewish people, Jewish wisdom, or Judaism to value Jesus and...

January 26, 2022

Jesus and Antisemitism (Part 2 of 3)

As the Jesus community became primarily Gentile, it added anti-Jewish elements to our sacred stories,...

January 25, 2022

Jesus and Antisemitism (Part 1 of 3)

Christians have little credibility critiquing other groups when there is so much housekeeping that needs...

January 20, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 3 of 3)

There are so many of us today who benefit from the violence of our present...

January 19, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 2 of 3)

Of all the passages in the Hebrew scriptures that the author of Luke could have...

January 18, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 1 of 3)

This choice not only reveals a passion for those being marginalized in any system, but...

January 13, 2022

Following Jesus in the Time of Covid (Part 3 of 3)

We already have a mandate in place: love your neighbor as yourself. This mandate requires...

January 12, 2022

Following Jesus in the Time of Covid (Part 2 of 3)

What designates one as a follower of Jesus is not the creeds we mentally assent...

January 11, 2022

Following Jesus in the Time of Covid (Part 1 of 3)

We don’t have to disparage any other religion, especially not Judaism, to value the Jesus...

July 2021

July 08, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 3 of 3)

Truth telling will always carry consequences, some beneficial and others difficult to bear.

July 07, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 2 of 3)

The phrase “Speak Truth to Power” has its origins in the American Friends Service Committee...

July 06, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 1 of 3)

This story is an example of a familiar theme in the Hebrew prophets.

April 2021

April 08, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 3)

We must be careful not to spiritualize these elements. What is does concrete good news...

April 07, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 2)

"I understand this is a subtle difference in interpretation but it creates a huge difference...

April 06, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 1)

The Jesus of John’s story doesn’t do things instead of us, as our substitute so...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 3)

We could choose to be last in line to oppose those progressive visions for American...

March 24, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 2)

Jesus was crucified by Rome not because he was starting a new religion, but because...

March 23, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 1)

Not one conception in Jewish history fits Luke’s description of how Mary conceived Jesus. But...

December 2020

December 11, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 3)

This year, as many of us are facing our own harsh realities, there may have...

December 09, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 2)

If we are to rediscover the original subversive power of the birth narratives of Jesus...

December 08, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 1)

If we are going to wrest these two narratives from centuries of purely religious and...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 3 of 3)

When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of...

July 29, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 2 of 3)

As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences...

July 28, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 1 of 3)

The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values...

July 23, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the...

July 22, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)

This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the...

July 21, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic...