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June 2024

June 04, 2024

Labelling Social Justice as Dangerous, Part 1

As complicated as this language is for us today, inspiring fear of social justice efforts...

May 2024

May 30, 2024

The Sabbath and Social Justice, Part 3

These Sabbath stories in Mark call each us to reassess our best practices to make...

May 29, 2024

The Sabbath and Social Justice, Part 2

Our economy depends on a never-ending, always-expanding growth. We cannot always be producing. There must...

May 28, 2024

The Sabbath and Social Justice, Part 1

These were labor justice lessons. Everyone was entitled to time to rest and be restored....

May 22, 2024

Reuniting the Material and the Spiritual, Part 2

This division between the flesh and the spirit, between the physical, material world and the...

May 21, 2024

Reuniting the Material and the Spiritual, Part 1

If we are going to reunite the material and the spiritual, we need to understand...

May 16, 2024

Pentecost as Connectedness and Distributive Justice, Part 3

The Spirit expressed itself in economic justice among them where everyone made sure their neighbor...

May 15, 2024

Pentecost as Connectedness and Distributive Justice, Part 2

One of the fruits of the Spirit (to borrow Paul’s language) in the synoptic gospels...

May 14, 2024

Pentecost as Connectedness and Distributive Justice, Part 1

This upcoming weekend is Pentecost in the Western Christian calendar. And these passages define that...

May 09, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 3

This combined with the passage in John defines our being sent as to be a...

May 08, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 2

This influence in John is seen when we are focused on heaven while being oblivious...

May 07, 2024

Socially Life Giving and Healing, Part 1

The gospel story is subtly different in the Johannine community’s version and these differences in...

May 02, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 3

As we work toward making our world a safe for everyone, love of neighbor calls...

May 01, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 2

If Christians are going to become peacemakers, we are first going have to learn how...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

Love and Social Justice, Part 1

It’s much more difficult to preach the gospel that the Jesus in the stories preached,...

April 25, 2024

Different Christianity Different Fruit, Part 3

Today, it is no secret that some forms Christianity are failing to produce the fruit...

April 24, 2024

Different Christianity Different Fruit, Part 2

Textual gymnastics can show almost anything to be Biblical. We have to ask whether our...

April 18, 2024

The Good Shepherd and a Socially Just World, Part 3

The shepherd metaphor then speaks to learning to relate to one another in a way...

February 2024

February 08, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 3

This story points to a life-giving path that informs us to take up the work...

February 07, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 2

He goes on to state the way apocalyptic literature was used in Mark’s culture to...

February 06, 2024

A Safe, Compassionate, Just Home for Everyone, Part 1

In this story, the early followers perceived teachings that would end oppression and establish justice...

February 01, 2024

Conduits of Healing and Liberation, Part 3

Evangelical Christianity today needs healing and liberation from possession by White supremacy, Christian nationalism, heteropatriarchy,...

January 2024

January 31, 2024

Conduits of Healing and Liberation, Part 2

It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined...

January 30, 2024

Conduits of Healing and Liberation, Part 1

It’s easy to read these healing stories supernaturally, but theses stories were originally intended to...

January 25, 2024

Exorcism of a Man with an Unclean Spirit, Part 3

This specific in augural exorcism story in Mark's gospel would have been read systematically and...

January 23, 2024

Exorcism of a Man with an Unclean Spirit, Part 1

The exorcism stories in the gospels were not written to answer our modern scientific questions....

January 18, 2024

The Gospel Jesus Taught, Part 3

"While it is much easier to preach a gospel that says, 'God loves us,' it...

January 17, 2024

The Gospel Jesus Taught, Part 2

He is not calling his listeners to repent of rebellion against empire or to accept...

January 16, 2024

The Gospel Jesus Taught, Part 1

Unlike the gospel these Roman messengers announced, the gospel Jesus announced was different.

November 2023

November 23, 2023

Sheep and Goats, Part 3

The difference was not wealth but wealth disparity; not its GDP but how much harm...