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July 2022

July 20, 2022

The Pain of Unanswered Prayer (Part 2 or 3)

This prayer is a patient expression of longing for some other iteration of our present...

July 19, 2022

The Pain of Unanswered Prayer (Part 1 or 3)

For many people, this week’s reading brings up painful memories and deep questions about unanswered...

July 14, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 3 of 3)

Adults a generation from now will value those different from them according to the way...

July 13, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 2 of 3)

This is a strong message and should be weighed carefully by all Christian communities and...

July 12, 2022

Jesus, Politics, and the Rights of Cis Women, Trans People and Nonbinary Folk (Part 1 of 3)

Mary chooses to transgress patriarchal, gender binary, gender role assumptions. The story also lauds her...

July 07, 2022

The Subversive and Transgressive Call to Love Our Neighbor (Part 3 of 3)

Whether we think of political, religious, or social communities, what does it look like for...

July 06, 2022

The Subversive and Transgressive Call to Love Our Neighbor (Part 2 of 3)

Affirming theologians often use love as the lens through which to interpret and understand their...

July 05, 2022

The Subversive and Transgressive Call to Love Our Neighbor (Part 1 of 3)

Given Rabbi Hillel’s influence in 1st Century Judaism, the Hillellian practice of interpreting Torah through...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

The Gospel of Interdependence (Part 3 of 3)

This calls us to reassess the social waters we swim in. It encourages interdependence rather...

June 29, 2022

The Gospel of Interdependence (Part 2 of 3)

We deeply need to reconnect with the reality that we are part of one another....

June 28, 2022

The Gospel of Interdependence (Part 1 of 3)

These itinerant workers were to be characterized by dependence, not independence, connectedness as contrasted with...

June 02, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 3 of 3)

People of all genders should be able to see themselves as bearing the image of...

June 01, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 2 of 3)

This declaration specifically excludes women from the Imago Dei and justifies the exclusion by referring...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Jesus & God as Woman (Part 1 of 3)

For Boyer, every other detail of the incarnation is incidental, but the fact that Jesus...

May 26, 2022

When Unity is Destructive (Part 3 of 3)

If we have to choose between unity and harm being done to those our status...

May 25, 2022

When Unity is Destructive (Part 2 of 3)

Think of how communities that suffer harm and injustice are often called to forgive and...

May 24, 2022

When Unity is Destructive (Part 1 of 3)

Beliefs were important, but they always held in tension with what fruit those beliefs were...

May 19, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 3 of 3)

The bodily autonomy of people in these communities is just the latest example of how...

May 18, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 2 of 3)

Early Christians were not concerned with saving people from post-mortem realities as much as they...

May 17, 2022

Social Advocacy (Part 1 of 3)

Advocacy is any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports...

May 12, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 3 of 3)

When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...

May 11, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 2 of 3)

It includes the desire to make sure the objects of our love have what they...

May 10, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 1 of 3)

This kind of love, too, needs careful defining and explanation to be genuinely life giving...

May 05, 2022

Being Part of One Another (Part 3 of 3)

We thrive together. We survive together. What harms some, always in some way harms everyone.

May 04, 2022

Being Part of One Another (Part 2 of 3)

This community defines itself as “more than” and those who do not define Jesus the...

May 03, 2022

Being Part of One Another (Part 1 of 3)

This can remind Christians both of Jesus’ deep Jewishness, and also how often the language...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 3 of 3)

This spring, may tulips and daffodils not be the only ones waking up from winter,...

April 27, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 2 of 3)

The Hebrew prophetic justice tradition interprets fishing, as a metaphor for removing unjust political rulers...

April 26, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 1 of 3)

Most scholars understand this version of the Jesus story to have ended in chapter 20,...

April 21, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Each resurrection story defines the resurrection in ways that cause his life work to continue...