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April 2026

April 30, 2026

Justice Lessons from the Gospel of John

In the gospel of John, belief is tied to actions of tangible, concrete healing, restoration,...

April 30, 2026

A Path of Justice

The path is more than a set of steps. It is relational, embodied, and lived....

April 28, 2026

A Vision of Radical Belonging

In a world structured by exclusion, where systems determine who is in and out, this...

June 2025

June 12, 2025

Harmonizing with the Gospels’ Justice Today

We can build on and expand the gospels' justice themes, harmonizing with and not getting...

June 11, 2025

Expanding the Gospels’ Justice Themes

Expanding Jesus' work of justice requires paying attention to how difference is used to justify...

June 10, 2025

Building on a Foundation of Justice

Justice teaches us to recognize how differences are used to make certain of our community...

April 2025

April 24, 2025

Sent for Liberation, Justice and Love

As Jesus was sent into our world, so we have been sent. But our sending has...

April 23, 2025

Lessons from the Different Great Commissions

In Luke the commission is about justice for the oppressed. In John it includes binding...

April 22, 2025

Lessons from John’s Post Resurrection Stories

The post resurrection appearance stories of the Jesus tradition were very important to the early...

August 2024

August 22, 2024

Right Now Matters, Part 3

The future will come. But right now, we are alive. We live in the present....

August 21, 2024

Right Now Matters, Part 2

We live in the right now. Love demands that our material existence, injustice, oppression, violence,...

August 20, 2024

Right Now Matters, Part 1

This final passage sums up the four messages of John chapter 6. And it is...

August 15, 2024

The Evolution of the Eucharist, Part 3

It would be transformative for privileged sectors of Christianity to listen to Eucharist interpretations from...

August 14, 2024

The Evolution of the Eucharist, Part 2

At these stages, this shared Eucharist meal was still about mutuality and resource-sharing, ensuring that...

August 13, 2024

The Evolution of the Eucharist, Part 1

Our reading this week is the Johannine’s community’s nod to the Eucharist. In John’s gospel,...

May 2024

May 09, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 3

This combined with the passage in John defines our being sent as to be a...

May 08, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 2

This influence in John is seen when we are focused on heaven while being oblivious...

May 07, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 1

The gospel story is subtly different in the Johannine community’s version and these differences in...

May 01, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 2

If Christians are going to become peacemakers, we are first going have to learn how...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 1

It’s much more difficult to preach the gospel that the Jesus in the stories preached,...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 3

It’s not that simple when our stories offer two different options. We have to take...

February 29, 2024

Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 2

For the prophets, the concern is justice. It’s within this Hebrew, prophetic justice tradition that...

February 29, 2024

Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 1

This detail magnifies one important differences in John. Narrative location, motives behind the action, and...

December 2023

December 14, 2023

Advent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 3

As difficult as doing preparation work in the wilderness is at times, there is joy...

December 13, 2023

Advent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 2

These are symbols of long standing within the Jewish society at that time. They debated...

December 12, 2023

Advent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 1

In the stories, John the Baptist is dramatically associated with these ancient figures, and this...

December 07, 2023

Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 3

This Advent calls to us to pay attention to what’s happening in our time on...

December 06, 2023

Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 2

This Advent, it's helpful to remember John’s wilderness baptisms were economic and political as well...

December 05, 2023

Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 1

This advent narrative element clues us in to the fact that the change will be...

April 2023

April 06, 2023

Mary at the Tomb, Part 3 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...