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July 2025

July 18, 2025

Gender Equality and Patriarchy in the Bible

We must ask ourselves today whether gender equality or patriarchy life-giving? Who is being hurt?

July 16, 2025

Mary, Martha, and Gender Equality

In story of gender equality, women were not to be treated as less than, but...

April 2025

April 03, 2025

Poverty is a By-product of the System

Poverty is a by-product of the system in which we live. It is man-made and...

April 02, 2025

Mary Magdalene Was Not a Prostitute

Characterizing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute advanced the goals of disparaging women as leaders in...

April 01, 2025

Mary, Patriarchy and the War on Women in Leadership

Our story this week involving Mary was used to disparage women leaders within Christianity toward...

December 2024

December 19, 2024

Reversing Injustice, Violence and Oppression

These stores are about the hope of change being born into our world, reversing injustice,...

December 18, 2024

Social Locations in the Christmas Narratives

The social locations of the characters in these Christmas stories matter. Pay attention to who...

December 17, 2024

Mary’s Magnificat, Faith and Social Justice

Few stories in the gospels’ narratives of Jesus’ birth demonstrate the intersection of faith and...

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...

April 2023

April 06, 2023

Mary at the Tomb, Part 3 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...

April 05, 2023

Resurrection, Part 2 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...

April 04, 2023

Good News, Part 1 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

July 2022

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...

April 2022

April 14, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)

This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...

April 13, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 2 of 3)

These are valid questions. How can we reconcile seeing the cross event as a salvific...

April 12, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)

One thing that is common to all the gospel narratives is the presence of women...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 3 of 3)

I don’t believe Jesus’ words in John about poor people should be interpreted as establishing...

March 30, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 2 of 3)

But this interpretation benefits those who are enriched by the status quo and don’t want...

March 29, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 1 of 3)

Mary’s act is one of gratitude . . . The story is not primarily that...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 3 of 3)

We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her...

December 22, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 2 of 3)

Joseph is neither centered nor given any voice at all in this story. Let's talk...

December 21, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 1 of 3)

The Christmas and childhood narratives of Jesus in the gospels are following an ancient format....

December 16, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 3)

Mary's story, like Jael’s and Judith’s, is much more scandalous. The life growing in here...

December 15, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 2)

Medieval images of Jael often depict her as a prefiguration of Mary the mother of Jesus.

December 14, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 1)

Those who heard Luke’s narrative and were familiar with the stories of the Hebrew scriptures...