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May 2026

May 05, 2026

Love Expressed in Actions Related to Justice

Love here is not abstract, but an expression of relational justice confronting harmful systems in...

February 2026

February 26, 2026

Loving Our World Through Justice

These stories call us to love our world and to participate in that love by...

January 2025

January 09, 2025

The Justice of the Prophets in Our Context Today

May we renew our commitments to justice today and our dedication to taking care of...

January 08, 2025

Justice and the Prophets

We are called to work for justice in our contexts in the same way. What...

January 07, 2025

Justice and the Spirit of Love

So many prophetic voices throughout the centuries have called for justice. This week's reading calls...

October 2024

October 31, 2024

Loving One’s Neighbor and Voting

This Tuesday, love your neighbor by getting out there and voting for love and justice....

October 30, 2024

Loving God is Loving One’s Neighbor

In this life, the closest we will ever get to loving God is how we...

October 29, 2024

Love and Social Justice

So closely is love connected to justice that it impossible to claim you even have...

May 2024

May 09, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 3

This combined with the passage in John defines our being sent as to be a...

May 08, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 2

This influence in John is seen when we are focused on heaven while being oblivious...

May 07, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 1

The gospel story is subtly different in the Johannine community’s version and these differences in...

May 02, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 3

As we work toward making our world a safe for everyone, love of neighbor calls...

May 01, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 2

If Christians are going to become peacemakers, we are first going have to learn how...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 1

It’s much more difficult to preach the gospel that the Jesus in the stories preached,...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 3

The good news is that hate doesn’t have the last word. We can choose love...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 2

Whatever we make of these reports today, the lessons in these stories’ emphasis are not...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 1

The original good news of the gospel was not that someone had died. It was...

January 2024

January 18, 2024

The Gospel Jesus Taught, Part 3

"While it is much easier to preach a gospel that says, 'God loves us,' it...

January 17, 2024

The Gospel Jesus Taught, Part 2

He is not calling his listeners to repent of rebellion against empire or to accept...

January 16, 2024

The Gospel Jesus Taught, Part 1

Unlike the gospel these Roman messengers announced, the gospel Jesus announced was different.

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Subversive Narratives of Advent, Part 3

This was an Advent of a gospel rooted in the Golden rule, enemy love, nonviolence,...

December 20, 2023

Subversive Narratives of Advent, Part 2

It was an advent of a life-giving system in the here and now as an...

December 19, 2023

Subversive Narratives of Advent, Part 1

If we are going to arrive at life-giving applications of this Advent story for our...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 3

That hope is grounded in the reality that we can face those challenges together in...

November 29, 2023

Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 2

Advent would've been a hard sell to say God’s just future had come. They could...

November 28, 2023

Advent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 1

The word advent means arrival. In the gospels we hear both the announcement that hope...

July 2023

July 20, 2023

Exclusion, How Not to View the World Part 3

If any are excluded in the just world we are working towards and creating, it...

July 19, 2023

People as Weeds, How Not to View the World Part 2

When we label someone as a weed, we never make it our practice to let...

July 18, 2023

A Problematic Passage, How Not to View the World Part 1

When a problematic passage only appears in one gospel, it gives me pause. We don’t...

February 2023

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...