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September 2021

September 08, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 2 of 3)

If you believe that acceptance of suffering gives life, then your resources for confronting perpetrators...

September 07, 2021

Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse (Part 1 of 3)

Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of “taking up one’s cross” to prioritize themselves...

September 02, 2021

Openness to Change (3 of 3)

We can choose in these moments, not to get defensive, but to apologize when our...

September 01, 2021

Openness to Change (2 of 3)

The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

Openness to Change ( 1 of 3)

This story offers a lot to us in the context of our own blinkered ways...

August 26, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 3 of 3)

I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...

August 25, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 2 of 3)

These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...

August 24, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 1 of 3)

Throughout history Christians have used the label of Pharisee as a disparaging or derogatory title...

August 19, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 3 of 3)

Love and justice are connected in the gospels. Proclaiming love, specifically a universal love of...

August 18, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 2 of 3)

This definition brings to my mind Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, the economic justice found...

August 17, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 1 of 3)

Christianity has a long history of harmfully categorizing things of "the flesh” as evil and...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Hated by the Right People (Part 3)

If we find ourselves opposed by the marginalized because we are actually standing between them...

May 12, 2021

Hated by the Right People (Part 2)

Too often we can conflate criticism and hate. Someone not liking something doesn’t mean they...

May 10, 2021

Hated by the Right People (Part 1)

Being hated by the world is a theme in many sectors of Christianity that has...

May 06, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 3)

We can explore ways that understanding Universal love that lead us, not to private, assured...

May 05, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 2)

Love that only leaves the privileged in a conscience-appeased state so they can sleep better...

May 04, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 1)

There is a way to teach God’s love that is complicit in oppression and harmful...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 3)

I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....

April 29, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 2)

Although the passage we began with focuses on bearing fruit rather than being a dead...

April 28, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 1)

After almost two centuries of Christian patriarchy gendering God as exclusively male, we must recognize...

April 22, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 3)

When we choose to make justice ultimately win, not just in isolated occurrences but systemically,...

April 21, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 2)

This story that so many White Christians hold dear puts God on the side of...

April 20, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 1)

Even today when you do a simple image search for Jesus, you’ll get ten or...

April 15, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 3)

It’s a story that is intended to awaken in us the choice to shape a...

April 14, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 2)

The kind of repentance that leads to that kind of forgiveness, then, is a social...

April 12, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 1)

The gospels’ post resurrection appearance stories follow a familiar pattern that meets the expectations of...

April 08, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 3)

We must be careful not to spiritualize these elements. What is does concrete good news...

April 07, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 2)

"I understand this is a subtle difference in interpretation but it creates a huge difference...

April 06, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 1)

The Jesus of John’s story doesn’t do things instead of us, as our substitute so...

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 3)

God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...