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October 2026

October 13, 2026

Render Unto Caesar

Things that belong to Caesar remind us that cconomic systems are never entirely neutral. Taxation,...

October 07, 2026

A Wedding Banquet and Participating in Justice

Banquet attire in the story is a metaphor for participation. We may publicly claim to...

October 06, 2026

A Wedding Banquet and An Invitation to Justice

The parable of the wedding banquet reminds us that those who confront injustice have often...

September 2026

September 30, 2026

The Stones the Builders Reject

There is an important tension in the ending of this story. The leaders in...

September 29, 2026

The Parable of the Vineyard and the Politics of Justice

The vineyard reminds us that eventually exploitation requires violence. Maintaining injustice depends on preventing questions.

September 23, 2026

Respectability Isn’t Righteousness: The Parable of Two Sons

The story of two sons challenges us today to stop confusing respectability with right and...

September 22, 2026

By Whose Authority?

Just authority is found in courage, truth, justice, accountability, and a commitment to the well-being...

September 16, 2026

The First Shall Be Last

Justice can mean more than giving everyone an equal chance. It can mean people with...

September 15, 2026

The Last Shall Be First

The story ultimately imagines an economy organized around human need rather than human competition where...

September 09, 2026

An Old Story of Debt Cancellation

This story of debt cancellation challenges the idea that forgiveness means allowing injustice to continue....

September 08, 2026

Forgiveness: Healing or a Tool of Oppression?

Forgiveness can be a profound act of healing, but requiring forgiveness can itself become a...

September 02, 2026

Binding, Loosing, and Justice for the Community

Binding and loosing place remarkable responsibility in the hands of the community, and there is...

September 01, 2026

Learning To Do Life As Community

Community justice is a process of community confrontation, testimony, discernment and possible restoration.

August 2026

August 26, 2026

When Solidarity Comes with a Personal Cost

Sometimes the most courageous act of solidarity is loving oneself enough to refuse to let...

August 25, 2026

Stumbling Blocks When Confronting Injustice

What happens when our desire to protect ourselves or those we love prevents us from...

August 20, 2026

Not Caesar: The Politics of the Gospel Story

Not Caesar carried profound political implications and gave the people a viable, subversive alternative rooted...

August 18, 2026

Peter’s Confession and the Hope of Just World

There was no consistent expectation. Peter's confession rather reflects the hope of many for liberation...

August 12, 2026

Compassion Rather Than Inerrancy

Willingness to change is what is being modelled and strengthened because it is rooted in...

August 11, 2026

A Disability Informed Reading of the Jesus Story

This metaphor is especially problematic because it uses disability as shorthand for moral and intellectual...

August 05, 2026

Overcoming Waves of Injustice

The waves here can also be understood as the overwhelming consequences of being dominated by...

August 04, 2026

Justice Lessons from the Sea of Galilee

This spelled profound trouble for the poor peasant fishing families who lived along and near...

July 2026

July 29, 2026

When Faith Communities Engage Social Challenges

This story challenges faith communities to resist the temptation to distance themselves from social problems.

July 28, 2026

Justice Lessons from the Feeding of the Five Thousand

The lessons here are derived form contrasting individualistic solutions versus a collective response and pulling...

July 23, 2026

Old Wisdom, New Applications

Honoring the wisdom of those gone before us, honesty about where those in the past...

July 22, 2026

Parables of Justice, Compassion, and Inclusion

These stories challenges us to plant seeds of justice by standing against inequality, caring for...

July 16, 2026

Harmful Parable

There is a deeper layer to this parable that is deeply troubling. Once someone is...

July 15, 2026

People Are Not Weeds

Throughout history, societies have repeatedly identified groups of people as "weeds" that threaten the health...

July 08, 2026

A Harvest of Compassion, Safety and Justice for All

A harvest of thirty, sixty, or one hundred times suggests that justice has a multiplying...

July 07, 2026

Casting Seeds of Justice

Understanding the imagery of the different seeds requires learning to see the world through the...

July 01, 2026

The Rest Jesus Offers Isn’t Just Personal

The rest mentioned here is not a lift simply from individual anxiety but the weight...