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November 2023

November 22, 2023

Sheep and Goats, Part 2

Pay close attention when certain sectors of Christianity choose to cherry pick and prioritize the...

November 21, 2023

Sheep and Goats, Part 1

So this parable has a collective nature. It’s about how we choose to structure our...

November 16, 2023

Reaping What Is Sown, Part 3

If we sow the wind, we will be reaping the whirlwind. But we can instead...

November 15, 2023

Reaping What Is Sown, Part 2

Injustice is unsustainable for the long term. Ancient wisdom in multiple traditions tell us we...

November 14, 2023

Reaping What Is Sown, Part 1

This would contrast starkly with how reaping and sowing are typically interpreted in these stories.

October 2023

October 26, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 3

If our ideas of God’s love doesn’t also address love of neighbor in very real,...

October 25, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 2

This interpretive lens has lots of history in Jewish wisdom. It is most often attributed...

October 24, 2023

A Politically Compassionate, Distributively Just Christianity, Part 1

Love of neighbor meant something specific. Social justice circles today often say that social justice...

October 12, 2023

A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 3

All are invited, and not all are welcome. To be welcome at the table, you...

October 11, 2023

A Wedding Banquet: All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 2

This banquet parable draws our attention to those in our society who are marginalized, excluded,...

October 10, 2023

All Are Invited, Not All Are Welcome, Part 1

The parable of this wedding banquet is not about heaven, but a call to return...

October 05, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 3

The Jewish crowds would not have loved Jesus if this parable taught they were being...

October 04, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 2

The crowds would have heard this parable of the vineyard differently than the elites and...

October 03, 2023

Unheeded Calls for Justice in the Parable of the Vineyard, Part 1

The crowds would have heard this parable of the vineyard differently than the elites and...

August 2023

August 24, 2023

Messiahs, Part 3 of Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right

Today, however, it is much more life giving to speak of correcting injustices without using...

August 23, 2023

Justice, Part 2 of Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right

This title referred much more to someone who would establish justice on Earth, ending oppression...

August 22, 2023

Here on Earth, Injustice, Oppression, and Violence Being Put Right Part 1

The great hope was the setting right of all injustice, the putting right of all...

August 17, 2023

A Canaanite Woman, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 3

She also uses his language against him to show him how blinkered his understanding is.

August 16, 2023

Grow and Learn, It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong Part 2

This sounds a lot like the way all of us grow and learn: through experience...

August 15, 2023

It’s Okay to Discover You Are Wrong, Part 1

This is important to name because using this term as a pejorative slur is historically...

August 10, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 3

Working for social change, whether within faith communities or outside of them, can be hard...

August 09, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 2

As strange as this story may be to us today, it would not have been...

August 08, 2023

When Working for Justice Feels Like Walking On Water, Part 1

First, let’s acknowledge how strange a story like this is to our post-enlightenment, science informed...

April 2023

April 27, 2023

Life Abundant, Part 3 of Fulness of Life for Everyone

It is important to remember that this abundant living doesn’t come at the expense of...

April 26, 2023

A Sheep Gate, Part 2 of Fulness of Life for Everyone

It symbolizes their version of Jesus as a “sheep gate” through which legitimate shepherds would...

April 25, 2023

A Shepherd, Part 1 of Fulness of Life for Everyone

The shepherd was not a private, individual, or spiritual image in the Jewish tradition as...

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...