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March 2025

March 13, 2025

Will We Have the Courage of Jesus in This Political Moment?

In the face of so many who are being hurt right now, may we, too,...

March 12, 2025

Why Herod Feared Jesus: Power, Protest, and Prophecy

All of this causes me to consider those courageously standing up against brutal acts being...

March 11, 2025

Herod the Fox and Saying No to Those in Power

Standing up to power and saying, "No," was central to the Hebrew, prophetic, justice tradition...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 3

It’s not that simple when our stories offer two different options. We have to take...

February 29, 2024

Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 2

For the prophets, the concern is justice. It’s within this Hebrew, prophetic justice tradition that...

February 29, 2024

Differences in John and Why They Matter, Part 1

This detail magnifies one important differences in John. Narrative location, motives behind the action, and...

February 15, 2024

The Power of Our Voices, Part 3

The way of love calls each of us, alongside of others, to use the power...

February 14, 2024

The Power of Our Voices, Part 2

Transfiguration in Mark is placed in connection with two voices that represent liberation and speaking...

February 12, 2024

The Power of Our Voices, Part 1

The language in this story was not tied to escaping our world but to the...

September 2023

September 28, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 3

There is a lesson in this for us. Don’t get side tracked or distracted by...

September 27, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 2

He doesn’t waste time defending his right to speak out or his right to exist....

September 26, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 1

We glean wisdom here as we stand in solidarity with the those in underprivileged social...

August 2023

August 31, 2023

What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean, Part 3

How we define bearing a cross makes a difference in how we respond to injustice...

August 31, 2023

Speaking Out, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 2

This is a far cry from counseling early followers to passively bear injustice, but a...

August 29, 2023

Participation, What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean Part 1

For better or worse, they interpreted the cross in terms of participation not substitution or...

June 2023

June 22, 2023

Sustainable, Part 3 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

"What does this passage have to say about how sustainable our system today is, both...

June 21, 2023

Gehenna, Part 2 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

This language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context, rather than in a modern Christian...

June 20, 2023

Gehenna, Part 1 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

Let’s try to hear this language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context rather than...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 3 of 3)

Our choices show not only what kind of people we want to be; they also...

February 16, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 2 of 3)

Jesus recommended nakedness in protest over returning violence with more violence.

February 15, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 1 of 3)

We reject any interpretation that demands we feel some kind of love or positive emotion...

July 2021

July 08, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 3 of 3)

Truth telling will always carry consequences, some beneficial and others difficult to bear.

July 07, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 2 of 3)

The phrase “Speak Truth to Power” has its origins in the American Friends Service Committee...

July 06, 2021

Speaking Truth to Those in Power (Part 1 of 3)

This story is an example of a familiar theme in the Hebrew prophets.

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Jesus and Protest (Part 3)

Change for those being harmed never happens fast enough. But in each of our circles...

March 03, 2021

Jesus and Protest (Part 2)

Mark's version of the story is not speaking about Jesus' own death and resurrection as...

March 02, 2021

Jesus and Protest (Part 1)

In one sense, it was a religious act for those who considered faithfulness to the...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 3 of 3)

When Jesus’ followers choose complicity, he explains, “The church, then, is made an agency of...

July 29, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 2 of 3)

As Katie Cannon sternly admonishes us, “Theologians need to think seriously about the real-life consequences...

July 28, 2020

Three Paths Toward Change Rejected (Part 1 of 3)

The accumulation of bread is not the highest value of God’s just future. God values...