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June 2026

June 18, 2026

Not Peace But a Sword

In this context, the “sword” is not physical violence but recognition that the pursuit of...

August 2025

August 13, 2025

Injustice and Keeping our Hands on the Plow

With hands on the plow, peacemakers are breaking up and preparing our social soil for...

August 13, 2025

Injustice and a Negative Peace

Negative peace is created when we prioritize unity over speaking out and taking action for...

August 12, 2025

Unity Against Justice

We cannot build real unity on the denial of justice. Authentic unity emerges not from...

April 2025

April 10, 2025

If You Want Peace, Work for Justice

Moving from teaching to protest happens in the story on the back of a young...

April 09, 2025

Achieving Peace Through Distributive Justice

This kind of peace and liberation will not come stronger violence, but through the holistic...

April 08, 2025

Peace Through Justice Doesn’t Need A War Horse

The prophets envisioned a different kind of peace achieved through a different type of means....

December 2023

December 07, 2023

Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 3

This Advent calls to us to pay attention to what’s happening in our time on...

December 06, 2023

Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 2

This Advent, it's helpful to remember John’s wilderness baptisms were economic and political as well...

December 05, 2023

Advent and Change from the Margins, Part 1

This advent narrative element clues us in to the fact that the change will be...

June 2020

June 10, 2020

COVID and the Things That Make for Peace (Part 2 of 2)

Glaude ends the interview with the call to both imagine a different world and voice...

June 08, 2020

COVID and the Things That Make for Peace (Part 1 of 2)

Will those in our future look back at us today and say, “If you, even...

March 2020

March 16, 2020

Shaping a New World at the End of Our Present System

Will we be a source of genuine light in our world’s oppression and exploitation, or...

January 2020

January 10, 2020

Great Joy for All People (Part 3)

Luke’s narratives about Jesus, beginning with the Christmas narratives, ultimately offer hope for those society...

December 2019

December 20, 2019

Great Joy for All People (Part 2)

"In Luke’s birth-narrative, Jesus is both the Davidic Messiah who converges with Judaism and the...

December 02, 2019

Stand Up Anyway

I don’t believe that we must pass through fire and sword to get to a...

November 2019

November 23, 2019

Jesus’ Call for Wealth Redistribution

Jesus’ definition of wealth as the exploitation of the poor and his call for wealth...

November 20, 2019

Choosing a World Shaped by Compassion

This world is not based on a win-lose closed system, but a win-win where we...

October 2019

October 11, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 10)

Jesus’ form of nonviolence was an act of self-affirmation in a society where one’s self...

October 04, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming Nonviolence (Part 9)

“Self-defense, in and of itself, is not violence. Violation is violence. Oppression is violence. Injustice...

September 2019

September 27, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 8)

“As followers of Jesus, especially ones who choose to embrace Jesus’ rejection of violence, we...

September 20, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming Nonviolence (Part 7)

If Jesus taught nonviolence, why does the rest of the Bible seem to endorse or...

September 13, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming Nonviolence (Part 6)

“He was not about keeping the peace, not disturbing the status quo, but about calling...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 5)

"We must be much more scandalized by the institutional violence that leads to violent rebellion...

August 23, 2019

A Primer on Self-Affirming Nonviolence (Part 4)

We’ve been discussing the importance of listening to those on the margins of society and...

August 16, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming, Nonviolence (Part 3)

"Jesus was teaching the rejection of violent responses to this world’s evil. Yet he was...

August 05, 2019

Jesus and Marginalized Communities

The Jesus we meet in the Jesus story resonated with the marginalized and oppressed of...

August 02, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming, Nonviolence (Part 2)

Today we live in the wake of these changes. Christianity and its Jesus fell in...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

A Primer on Self Affirming, Nonviolence (Part 1)

Seven years ago I wrote a series on Nonviolence. Much has changed for me since...

July 10, 2019

Learning to Listen to Someone Else’s Truth

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