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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...

October 2024

October 03, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 3

Justice and that which was life-giving were the concerns in our reading. That which is...

October 02, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 2

The culture wherein these ancient divorce laws were written was predominantly heterosexist and deeply patriarchal.

October 01, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 1

These laws written about divorce were not written with the same cultural practices and assumptions...

June 2024

June 27, 2024

Preferential Options and Patriarchy, Part 3

By placing the woman alongside the little girl the story also calls us to reject...

June 27, 2024

Preferential Options and Patriarchy, Part 2

The story, at first, pretends to affirm the social assumption that if we practice preferential...

June 26, 2024

Preferential Options and Patriarchy, Part 1

In our justice work, understanding our social locations in the society we have created is...

June 08, 2023

The Woman, Part 3 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

To Christians today who want to use political power to make it much more dangerous...

June 07, 2023

Jairus’ Daughter, Part 2 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

In this story, women’s reproductive ability is not their choice but governed by men to...

June 06, 2023

Healing, Part 1 of Jesus and the Bodily Autonomy of Women

What is broken and needs healing in a person that causes them to want to...

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...

January 2023

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...

November 2022

November 04, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 3 of 3)

Today, we must ask whether our social institutions are being practiced in life-giving or death-dealing...

November 03, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 2 of 3)

This week’s reading challenges all our institutions, systems, and social structures including marriage.

November 01, 2022

When Marriage is Unjust (Part 1 of 3)

His response in each synoptic gospel is telling: and that response doesn’t seem to be...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 3 of 3)

It’s not just okay but it’s actually right for us to be angry when we...

September 29, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 2 of 3)

Where we read of the creation of day and night: not a hard binary but...

September 28, 2021

Jesus, Patriarchy, and the Wellbeing of Women (Part 1 of 3)

Christians today do a great deal of harm by shallowly thinking Jesus was against all...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

The Patriarchy, Justice, and Jesus’ Misunderstood Teachings on Divorce

In Spirit, Jesus' teachings on patriarchy and divorce call us to reject seeing anyone as...

February 05, 2020

Push Back from the Establishment

Where do you see establishment push back against a vision of future society that is...

August 2019

August 19, 2019

Listening to Those on the Margins and the Gendering of God

We can listen to the most vulnerable. We can hear from their experiences whether or...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Our Communal Interdependence Versus Individualistic Independence

Let’s lean more deeply into our shared lives. Let’s find ways relevant for our world...

June 2019

June 24, 2019

The Gospels’ Fruit Test

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May 2019

May 31, 2019

A Kingless Kingdom

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