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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...

July 23, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise and set new records each day, remember that the...

July 22, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)

This also brings to mind how our working population is being sacrificed today in the...

July 21, 2020

Systems of Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

In these gospels, salvation is not about Jesus making a sacrifice that allows a cosmic...

July 16, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 3 of 3)

I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus...

July 15, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 2 of 3)

"This passage is also the very passage Jesus quoted as he demonstrated against his own...

July 13, 2020

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness (Part 1 of 3)

So the passage in Matthew isn’t about using the term “fool,” but about mislabelling as...

July 09, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 3 of 3)

Personally and systemically, our hope as a species is in discovering more effective ways of...

July 08, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 2 of 3)

In the gospels, we see a vision of God’s just future where human communities are...

July 06, 2020

More Effective Ways To Care (Part 1 of 3)

What does it look like for Jesus followers to create ways of organizing communities that...

July 02, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 3 of 3)

“Every generation faces these inflexible alternatives, transformation or eventual implosion—these are the inflexible alternatives before...

July 01, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 2 of 3)

"He was not rejected by the people. He was silenced by the powerful and elite...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

A Path Toward Societal Equity (Part 1 of 3)

Today’s climate for those deemed essential workers during our present pandemic is similar. As the...

June 19, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Peace through a militarized quelling of unrest is not peace, but a lull waiting for...

June 17, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 2 of 3)

This is where the path of systemic injustice pressed down too long by militarized force...

June 15, 2020

Choosing Peace through Militarized Policing or Distributive Justice (Part 1 of 3)

What we have here is two paths toward peace. One was enforced by militarized power...

June 03, 2020

3 Reasons Why White Christians Should Be Standing In Solidarity With Black People

Here are a few reasons why I am convinced that White Christians should be standing...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Zacchaeus and Christian Support of Destructive Administrations

“What is needed for empowered, privileged Christians who support a corrupt administration today to follow...

February 07, 2020

Exclusion and the Refusal of the Older Brother

If you believe God loves someone, justice for them isn’t far behind. Love for those...

December 2019

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 15, 2019

A Gospel About Jesus Versus the Gospel Jesus Taught

One thread in Jewish tradition enlarged this hope and applied it not only to the...

November 08, 2019

Biblical Inclusion Versus Biblical Exclusion

“What is our relation, as followers of Jesus, to the marginalized of our day? To...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

The Worth of Those on the Margins

And remember to stop to consider how valuable you are. In a world that may...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

Checking Your Privilege

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June 2019

June 21, 2019

Challenging Exclusion

“It’s not enough to simply offer a gospel that only offers divine forgiveness of sins....