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November 2025

November 20, 2025

Resurrection and Justice Work Today

Death, even just one more death, doesn't overcome death. Only life nonviolently triumphs over violence...

November 19, 2025

Crucifixion: A Historical Alternative to Substitution

Crucifixion was reserved enemies of the state or those who threatened imperial order, not ordinary...

November 18, 2025

Calvary as Political Execution

Political execution pivots us from a transaction in cosmic accounting far away to our own...

November 13, 2025

One Stone Not Left Upon Another of our Growing Disparity

Similar to the 1st Century, change requires a profound shift away from a system of...

November 12, 2025

The Widening Gap: Can Equity Outpace Inequality?

The widening gap in our one-sided system grows wealth exponentially for a few, divorced from...

November 11, 2025

The Unsustainability of Injustice

The unsustanability of their economic system had reached a breaking point where the masses could...

November 06, 2025

Afterlife Obsession and Justice Work Today

A belief in an afterlife shouldn't overshadow the work of shaping our world into a...

November 05, 2025

Salt, Light and Justice

Being salt and light here and now means being a conduit of the gospels core...

November 04, 2025

Life and Living Versus Death and Dying

The contrast between focusing on the living rather than on death and dying could have...

October 2025

October 30, 2025

Zacchaeus and the Gospel Call for Wealth Redistribution

Zacchaeus demonstrates that economic justice is central to spiritual renewal, addressing income inequality is a...

October 29, 2025

The Social Vision of the Gospel

Ultimately, this social vision is a direct challenge to the status quo. It is good...

October 28, 2025

The Social Revolution at the Heart of the Beatitudes

Luke’s beatitudes are another example of the social revolution toward the common good at the...

October 23, 2025

A Tax Collector, Economic Disparity and Justice

Our reading a humble tax collector embracing the call for wealth redistribution and poverty elimination,...

October 22, 2025

Is Love That is Indifferent to Poverty Enough?

Interpreting one's religion through a lens of love while failing to confront systems of inequity...

October 21, 2025

A Pharisee, a Tax Collector, and Justice

Anyone who cares about ending violence, including anit-Jewish violence, should reject using the label of...

October 16, 2025

Nevertheless She Persisted

Change is slow, but it is still within reach—if we keep pushing, if we continue,...

October 15, 2025

The Apocalyptic Son of Man, Liberation and Societal Justice

This image is from Jewish apocalyptic literature during a time when the people were once...

October 14, 2025

Widow, Judge, and Justice: The Dynamics of Persistence

When we see injustice, we can either go and put it right or, with persistence,...

October 09, 2025

The Story of the Ten Lepers and Christian Xenophobia

The story of the ten lepers communicates a similar lesson as the good Samaritan and...

October 08, 2025

Christianity and the Present Anti-Immigration Sentiment

Anti-Immigration sentiments of certain Christians stand stark contrast to the gospel mandate, "I was a...

October 07, 2025

Welcoming the Stranger and the Christian Xenophobia Crisis

This all stands in stark contrast to the xenophobia so many in our American society...

October 02, 2025

When Christian Interpretations Normalize Social Evils

This explains how certain sectors of Christianity have embraced xenophobic, fascist, and authoritarian elements in...

October 01, 2025

Holy Wrongs: The Sacred Normalization of Evil in Scripture

One of the dangers of readings like this is the normalization for Christians of evils...

September 2025

September 30, 2025

When the Bible Speaks of Slavery

I find this passage abhorrent. I offer no justification for slavery. Nor will I advocate...

September 25, 2025

While Lazarus Starves: A Gospel of Economic Injustice

The Lazarus story doesn't asks us to care about our experience in an afterlife, but...

September 24, 2025

Economic Justice and the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Details of this story also offer a powerful message about economic justice, critiquing wealth inequality...

September 23, 2025

Justice Today or a Great Reversal Tomorrow

This story uses the then-popular belief of a great reversal coming to all in the...

September 18, 2025

Community Through Redistribution of Wealth

This was a community built through redistribution of wealth. It was about forging bonds through...

September 17, 2025

The Dishonest Manager and the Tools of the Powerless

The manager is using a weapon of the powerless. They have to find ways of...

September 16, 2025

Wealth Redistribution in the Gospels

Spiritualized this story of wealth redistribution givess off the impression that something is intentionally missing.