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June 2026

June 04, 2026

Practicing a Preferential Option

Juxtaposing these two stories together was intended to teach the practice of a preferential option...

September 2025

September 11, 2025

A Preferential Option for Justice

In contrast, the lens of a preferential option for the marginalized provides a nuance that...

September 10, 2025

A Lost Sheep, A Lost Coin, Lost Justice

The lost sheep and the lost coin both challenge the notion that social justice can...

September 09, 2025

The Lost Sheep Metaphor in a Fragmented Society

It can lead to the marginalization of those who are different all while absolving the...

September 20, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 3

Or are we flipping this script and using this teachings on being servants in ways...

September 18, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 2

It wasn't long before these words on being servants intended to correct those seeking status...

September 17, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 1

Our reading turns hierarchical ways of structuring our communities upside down, defining leaders as being...

September 08, 2022

A Preferential Option and Student Debt Forgiveness (Part 3 of 3)

In a society that privileges certain ones by pushing others to the edges and undersides...

September 07, 2022

A Preferential Option and Student Debt Forgiveness (Part 2 of 3)

In those schools of interpretation, “a preferential option” for the one being harmed, excluded, and

September 06, 2022

A Preferential Option and Student Debt Forgiveness (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s reading includes arguably two of the most famous stories associated with Jesus today.

June 2021

June 24, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 3 of 3)

In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...

June 23, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 2 of 3)

But the story actually prioritizes and centers this marginalized woman over the named, male, synagogue...

June 22, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 1 of 3)

The contrasting social locations of these recipients of Jesus’ work is one of the most...

November 2020

November 13, 2020

Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 3 of 3)

To change systemic oppression, every time, we must stand in solidarity with the oppressed, demanding...

November 11, 2020

Taking Sides: Reclaiming our Humanity (Part 2 of 3)

In the stories, Jesus was seeking to help both sides reclaim their humanity and that...

April 2020

April 17, 2020

New Wine in Old Wineskins (Part 6 of 6)

Moments like these not only call us to reassess our systems but also our own...

April 15, 2020

New Wine in Old Wineskins (Part 5 of 6)

The Jesus story’s new wine pushes us beyond the skins of a system that only...

April 13, 2020

New Wine in Old Wineskins (Part 4 of 6)

Is it time today for a reformation where we try to infuse old skins with...

April 10, 2020

New Wine in Old Wineskins (Part 3 of 6)

Texts must be interpreted in life-giving ways within communities that prioritize the voices of the...

June 2019

June 12, 2019

The Misinformed Leading the Misinformed

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