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January 2025

January 31, 2025

Rejecting the Rage Against Justice and Equity

Today we need to pay attention to responses that answer justice movements with rage and...

January 30, 2025

A Modern Example of Uncomfortable History

In our story this week, merely referring to a community’s history evokes a response of...

January 29, 2025

The Discomfort of Our History

Our reading this week offers us an openness to addressing the parts of our own...

March 2021

March 12, 2021

Transparency and the Vilification of Darkness (Part 3)

When public consciousness is raised, change isn’t very far behind, and change is what those...

March 10, 2021

Transparency and the Vilification of Darkness (Part 2)

It’s about them coopting the darkness, which is not inherently evil, and using the darkness...

March 09, 2021

Transparency and the Vilification of Darkness (Part 1)

“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for...

June 2020

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...

March 2020

March 11, 2020

The “Kingdom of God” is within You

This individualistic interpretation makes the kingdom abstract. It does not address systemic injustice, oppression, or...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

A Preferential Option for the Vulnerable and the Marginalized

There are two types of justice work. One seeks to give people equal access to...

February 17, 2020

When Preaching A Message of “Love” Doesn’t Lead To Justice

Our experiences determine not only the questions we ask but also the answers we get...

February 05, 2020

Push Back from the Establishment

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

January 2020

January 29, 2020

Trump, White Christianity and the Parable of Insipid Salt

I’m not sure what Christianity’s future is. But I do believe that, to the best...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

When Truth Comes To Light, It Doesn’t Do So On Its Own

It is in our “speaking in the light” what we have “heard in the dark”...

October 07, 2019

How We See Others

When we choose to neglect this basic step in how we are seeing others, it...

September 2019

September 16, 2019

When Social Justice is Labelled as Evil

"The work of ending the suffering for so many is being labeled as dangerous and...

September 02, 2019

Inciting Fear to Halt Change

It is one thing to be deceived and mistake something evil for something good. It...

August 2019

August 09, 2019

Reading Jesus from the Margins

For many, only when they discover for themselves the Jesus in the story from the...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

Checking Your Privilege

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June 2019

June 24, 2019

The Gospels’ Fruit Test

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