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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...

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...

May 2022

May 26, 2022

When Unity is Destructive (Part 3 of 3)

If we have to choose between unity and harm being done to those our status...

May 25, 2022

When Unity is Destructive (Part 2 of 3)

Think of how communities that suffer harm and injustice are often called to forgive and...

May 24, 2022

When Unity is Destructive (Part 1 of 3)

Beliefs were important, but they always held in tension with what fruit those beliefs were...

October 2021

October 15, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 3 of 3)

If we take seriously Jesus’ call for no more lords, and we work for a...

October 14, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 2 of 3)

I appreciate the emphasis on not encouraging lordship, and we must also be honest that...

October 13, 2021

No More Slaves (Part 1 of 3)

Crucifixion was not a passive acceptance of abuse and injustice. It was Rome’s punishment for...

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...

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...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Gaining the World, Losing One’s Humanity (Part 3)

Yet what’s at stake is larger than democracy. As Jesus called his followers, we’re called...

February 24, 2021

Gaining the World, Losing One’s Humanity (Part 2)

The concern is not partisan politics. The concern is humanity, the common good, the good...

February 23, 2021

Gaining the World, Losing One’s Humanity (Part 1)

That is the political or social context in which we must understand the above passage....

February 19, 2021

Salt, Light, and Cautious Optimism, Part 3

We can exhale deep relief from the political transition we have just witnessed. And we...

February 17, 2021

Salt, Light, and Cautious Optimism, Part 2

It will not be enough to see a more diverse neoliberalism in response to the...

February 15, 2021

Salt, Light, and Cautious Optimism, Part 1

Compassion and safety for everyone are just two plants that grow in the soil of...

February 09, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 3

Jesus modeled listening to those who belong to oppressed communities, and going deeper through that...

February 03, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 2

What we are encountering in this gospel story today would today be called intersectionality.

February 01, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 1

This passage may be speaking about ways that oppressed and disinherited people can allow the...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 3)

These are questions worth wrestling with as we enter this new year.

January 21, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 2)

A return to social equity always feels like “loss” for those who are privileged and...

January 19, 2021

The Falling and Rising of Many (Part 1)

This is the intrinsic reason why our collective thriving depends on raising up some in...