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April 2026

April 02, 2026

Life After the Cross: A Gospel Begins with Women at a Tomb

Centering the gospel in resurrection rather than death and dying follows the original witness first...

April 01, 2026

An Invitation to the Same Solidarity

Easter invites us to align ourselves in that same solidarity, to resist systems that crucify,...

March 2026

March 31, 2026

Social Implications of Resurrection

Empires are not permanent or unquestionable. Resurrection stores in the context of State violence carry...

November 2025

November 06, 2025

Afterlife Obsession and Justice Work Today

A belief in an afterlife shouldn't overshadow the work of shaping our world into a...

November 05, 2025

Salt, Light and Justice

Being salt and light here and now means being a conduit of the gospels core...

November 04, 2025

Life and Living Versus Death and Dying

The contrast between focusing on the living rather than on death and dying could have...

April 2025

April 16, 2025

Life and Living Not Death and Dying

Marginalized communities have spent years critiquing theologies that center on death rather than how life...

April 16, 2025

Original Good News Was About a Resurrection Not a Cross

The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christianity for two millennia. The original...

April 11, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 3

Whatever we make of the resurrection stories today, resurrection speaks of stories not over yet. ...

April 10, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 2

Resurrection speaks that hate, injustice, bigotry, power and privilege don’t have to have the last...

April 09, 2024

Resurrection as Injustice Undone, Part 1

They did not see their salvation as accomplished through the cross. They saw the resurrection...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 3

The good news is that hate doesn’t have the last word. We can choose love...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 2

Whatever we make of these reports today, the lessons in these stories’ emphasis are not...

March 27, 2024

Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying, Pt. 1

The original good news of the gospel was not that someone had died. It was...

April 2023

April 20, 2023

Good News, Part 3 of Resurrection as the Good News

They may interrupt our work of shaping our world into a safe home for all,...

April 19, 2023

Undoing, Part 2 of Resurrection as the Good News

Many who live in or stand in solidarity with oppressed communities have seen how destructive...

April 18, 2023

Reversal, Part 1 of Resurrection as the Good News

For the early Jesus followers, the good news was not that Jesus had died, or...

April 13, 2023

That Which is Life Giving, Part 3 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

This week’s reading is also a good reminder to choose that which is life giving...

April 12, 2023

Loosing and Binding, Part 2 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

Both loosing and binding can be life-giving or death-dealing. We must practice informed wisdom that...

April 11, 2023

Commission Stories, Part 1 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

Each of these commission stories are separate, each told for the distinct purposes of the...

April 06, 2023

Mary at the Tomb, Part 3 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

This Easter story of Mary is about prioritizing all the voices that our practices push...

April 05, 2023

Resurrection, Part 2 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

The resurrection is the good news in the book of Acts, not that someone had...

April 04, 2023

Good News, Part 1 of Resurrection and Listening to Those on the Margins

For many early Christians, the good news was not that Jesus had died, but that...

April 28, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 3 of 3)

This spring, may tulips and daffodils not be the only ones waking up from winter,...

April 27, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 2 of 3)

The Hebrew prophetic justice tradition interprets fishing, as a metaphor for removing unjust political rulers...

April 26, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 1 of 3)

Most scholars understand this version of the Jesus story to have ended in chapter 20,...

April 21, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Each resurrection story defines the resurrection in ways that cause his life work to continue...

April 20, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 2 of 3)

How many times have we seen those who harm others or benefit from that harm...

April 19, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 1 of 3)

Forgiveness divorced from that spirit serves to only perpetuate oppression and harm.

April 14, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)

This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...