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February 2024

February 22, 2024

Bearing Crosses and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering, Part 3

This may seem to be a subtle interpretive difference, but it makes all the difference...

February 21, 2024

Bearing Crosses and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering, Part 2

Too often, the cross we are to counseled to “bear” is defined as an injustice...

February 20, 2024

Bearing Crosses and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering, Part 1

This is the myth of redemptive suffering: that our suffering can redeem our abusers and...

February 15, 2024

The Power of Our Voices, Part 3

The way of love calls each of us, alongside of others, to use the power...

February 14, 2024

The Power of Our Voices, Part 2

Transfiguration in Mark is placed in connection with two voices that represent liberation and speaking...

February 12, 2024

The Power of Our Voices, Part 1

The language in this story was not tied to escaping our world but to the...

June 2023

June 22, 2023

Sustainable, Part 3 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

"What does this passage have to say about how sustainable our system today is, both...

June 21, 2023

Gehenna, Part 2 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

This language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context, rather than in a modern Christian...

June 20, 2023

Gehenna, Part 1 of Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

Let’s try to hear this language about Gehenna in its original Jewish context rather than...

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 2019

October 28, 2019

Jesus’ Gehenna in the Context of Social Justice

We are to oppose injustice and resist oppression. Let’s do it together in a way...

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 02, 2019

Speaking Your Truth

In the name of taking actions that advance compassion, love and justice in our world,...