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February 2023

February 23, 2023

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 3 of 3)

Regarding sacrificing out humanity, we’ll need to interpret these stories differently than the original audience...

February 22, 2023

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 2 of 3)

"This concept often then turns into unhealthy passive acceptance and unhealthy forms of self-sacrifice having...

February 21, 2023

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World (Part 1 of 3)

Sacrificing our humanity for bread, contrasted with those things that are life-giving in the long...

February 16, 2023

Jesus as Liberation from Systemic Injustice (Part 3 of 3)

Matthew’s version of the transfiguration was intended to inspire the gospel’s original audience with a...

February 15, 2023

Jesus as Liberation from Systemic Injustice (Part 2 of 3)

Jesus as liberation from systemic injustice doesn’t replace Moses. Jesus here is another Moses this...

February 14, 2023

Jesus as Liberation from Systemic Injustice (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s theme is Transfiguration. What difference does it make to see this story in...

February 09, 2023

Rewriting the Sermon on the Mount (Part 3 of 3)

In our rewrite of the sermon on the mount, one thing that should remain is...

February 08, 2023

Rewriting the Sermon on the Mount (Part 2 of 3)

This language in the sermon on the mount is warning not of a postmortem experience,...

February 07, 2023

Rewriting the Sermon on the Mount (Part 1 of 3)

Our reading this week from the sermon on the mount gives us a window into...

February 02, 2023

Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 3 of 3)

In our own era today, we desperately need to transition to more loving, compassionate, and...

February 01, 2023

Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 2 of 3)

Safe-for-everyone interpretations and practices means change when immense harm has been done by a traditional...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices (Part 1 of 3)

Safe-for-everyone means that we can do with the Jesus story today what those in the...

January 27, 2023

A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 3 of 3)

These words are Jesus’ vision for a world here, now, today, where those presently being...

January 26, 2023

A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 2 of 3)

A new iteration rejects focusing on prescribing virtues we are to develop individually, whereby the...

January 24, 2023

A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 1 of 3)

It is helpful to remember that these words are descriptive, not prescriptive. They have long...

January 20, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 3 of 3)

Healing justice can still liberate today as it did in some of our most sacred,...

January 19, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 2 of 3)

Whatever one decides to call it, we are talking about changes here and now, life-giving...

January 18, 2023

When Healing Justice Comes Near (Part 1 of 3)

This impacts how we talk about the Bible’s use of light and darkness, too. We...

January 12, 2023

The Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)

If we aren’t careful we are telling those being harmed to be patient, that something...

January 11, 2023

The Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 2 of 3)

If we interpret Jesus’ death as redemptive suffering, then this becomes a life model for...

January 10, 2023

The Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)

It is helpful to understand some of the political context in which this passage was...

January 06, 2023

Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 3 of 3)

Yet once you see the social emphasis of the gospel stories, it’s really hard to...

January 05, 2023

Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 2 of 3)

These societal injustices could have been things such as complicity with Empire, injustice toward the...

January 04, 2023

Breaking With the Way Things Are (Part 1 of 3)

All of these connections to liberation and justice would have been made by those who...

December 2022

December 22, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 3 of 3)

When it comes to those pushed to the undersides and edges of our society, this...

December 21, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 2 of 3)

The angel doesn’t appear to the ruling class, but to rural shepherds, who we’d call...

December 20, 2022

A Special Christmas Message (Part 1 of 3)

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks...

December 16, 2022

Advent and the Arrival of a Safer World for Everyone (Part 3 of 3)

Can ethics in the Jesus story, such as solidarity with the marginalized, still promise a...

December 15, 2022

Advent and the Arrival of a Safer World for Everyone (Part 2 of 3)

"An ever-repeating theme of these Jewish liberation narratives is that YHWH stands in solidarity with...

December 14, 2022

Advent and the Arrival of a Safer World for Everyone (Part 1 of 3)

Many scholars believe the stories about Jesus’ birth and infancy in Matthew and Luke were...