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April 2023

April 05, 2023

Resurrection, Part 2 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...

April 04, 2023

Good News, Part 1 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

A Story of Hope, Part 3 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice 

This is an ancient story of hope. Today, we still need hope that our best...

March 22, 2023

Apocalypticism and John’s Jesus, Part 2 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice Series

Jewish apocalyptic teaching included the belief that at some future point, all injustice, violence, and...

March 21, 2023

Lazarus’ Resurrection, Part 1 of Lazarus and Choosing Love Over Injustice Series

One the biggest differences in John is the story of Lazarus as the reason Jesus...

March 16, 2023

John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 3 of 3)

All in all, John chapter 9 is a reminder to me that today, we need...

March 15, 2023

John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 2 of 3)

This is important because of the atrocities by Christians against the Jewish community that can...

March 14, 2023

John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 1 of 3)

In John Chapter 9, some things are different from later Gnosticism, and there are many...

March 09, 2023

A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 3 of 3)

The path we are set on assists us in transforming our world into a just,...

March 08, 2023

A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 2 of 3)

A world that is safe for everyone means including those presently marginalized, a theme that...

March 07, 2023

A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 1 of 3)

As we consider a world that is safe for everyone, our reading explains why this...

March 02, 2023

A Spiritual Awakening that Establishes Justice (Part 3 of 3)

This binary contrast quickly becomes an opiate for our world’s injustice and does not inspire...

March 01, 2023

A Spiritual Awakening that Establishes Justice (Part 2 of 3)

This way of understanding our world has not historically birthed good fruit. It tends to...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

A Spiritual Awakening that Establishes Justice (Part 1 of 3)

This week's reading points to a spiritual awakening that establishes justice, within an artfully combined...

December 2022

December 08, 2022

The Love and Justice of Advent (Part 2 of 3)

We can acknowledge how the ableism in our gospels stories has born harmful fruit, and...

December 07, 2022

The Love and Justice of Advent (Part 1 of 3)

Love is a traditional theme during Advent. In the gospels, love holds the most concrete...

December 01, 2022

Advent and Coming Justice (Part 3 of 3)

May all things death-dealing be burned up like chaff with fire that cannot be quenched....

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Advent and Coming Justice (Part 2 of 3)

Change comes from the bottom up and outside in. To put it in our language...

November 29, 2022

Advent and Coming Justice (Part 1 of 3)

The margins are the places where liberation faith and hope are renewed and where change...

December 2021

December 09, 2021

Advent as Too Political (Part 3 of 3)

Social location matters. Which communities in which social locations have we chosen to speak out...

December 08, 2021

Advent as Too Political (Part 2 of 3)

A Christianity that focuses on achieving entrance into heaven without regard for injustices being committed...

December 07, 2021

Advent as Too Political (Part 1 of 3)

The concern is for justice to be practiced within society because deeds prove social repentance...

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.

May 2021

May 06, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 3)

We can explore ways that understanding Universal love that lead us, not to private, assured...

May 05, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 2)

Love that only leaves the privileged in a conscience-appeased state so they can sleep better...

May 04, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 1)

There is a way to teach God’s love that is complicit in oppression and harmful...

July 2019

July 12, 2019

Liking Jesus, But Not Christianity

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