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August 2023

August 03, 2023

Questions, Enoughism Part 3

Practicing a social, political or economic ethic in harmony with the belief that God loves...

August 02, 2023

Eucharist, Enoughism Part 2

Forgetting the communal purpose of the Eucharist and its lessons of sharing our resources was...

August 01, 2023

Sharing, Enoughism Part 1

The path of life for the future is always one of enoughism, one of sharing,...

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...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 3 of 3)

I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...

August 25, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 2 of 3)

These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...

August 24, 2021

Worshiping in Vain (Part 1 of 3)

Throughout history Christians have used the label of Pharisee as a disparaging or derogatory title...

August 19, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 3 of 3)

Love and justice are connected in the gospels. Proclaiming love, specifically a universal love of...

August 18, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 2 of 3)

This definition brings to my mind Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, the economic justice found...

August 17, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 1 of 3)

Christianity has a long history of harmfully categorizing things of "the flesh” as evil and...

August 12, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 3 of 3)

That the kind of people we choose to be today will impact the kind of...

August 11, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 2 of 3)

There are others who no longer believe in Christianity’s high claims, but who still engage...

August 10, 2021

Choosing an Ethic of Love (Part 1 of 3)

Yet there’s a way for us today, with our focus on establishing justice on Earth...

August 06, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 3 of 3)

What is bread that is only temporary and what is bread that leads to life...

August 05, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 2 of 3)

This would make much more sense if we define the bread of life as the...

August 04, 2021

The Bread of Life (Part 1 of 3)

Can we reclaim this passage in our lectionary reading for this week?

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Those Things Which Are Eternal (Part 3 of 3)

Today I belong to a community that’s very different than the one I used to...

July 29, 2021

Those Things Which Are Eternal (Part 2 of 3)

In this context, an alternative, life-giving interpretation might be a call to focus on the...

July 28, 2021

Those Things Which Are Eternal (Part 1 of 3)

This school of interpretive thought has born deeply destructive fruit and has always been coopted...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

The Beatitudes for the Poor, Hungry, and Mourning

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