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October 2024

October 29, 2024

Love and Social Justice

So closely is love connected to justice that it impossible to claim you even have...

October 24, 2024

Bartimaeus and Christians of Privilege, Part 3

Proximity doesn’t guarantee change. But it does provide the opportunity for change, through crossing lines...

October 23, 2024

Bartimaeus and Christians of Privilege, Part 2

I can’t help but see a critique of Christian nationalism in the contrast between James,...

October 22, 2024

Bartimaeus and Christians of Privilege, Part 1

The Bartimaeus story has social, political, and economic dimensions that are rarely touched on in...

October 17, 2024

Participation Not Substitution, Part 3

Standing up for love and justice sometimes involves drinking the same cup and baptism. In...

October 16, 2024

Participation Not Substitution, Part 2

In Mark, these stories aren't about a Jesus doing things for or instead of his...

October 15, 2024

Participation Not Substitution, Part 1

Elements that Christianity has typically viewed through the lens of substitution, Mark's gospel frames in...

October 10, 2024

God and Money, Part 3

No one can serve two masters. You will hate the one and love the other....

October 09, 2024

God and Money, Part 2

The human dilemma in regards to most everything including money is, in large part, that...

October 08, 2024

God and Money, Part 1

This week’s reading gets to the heart of one of the central teachings of the...

October 03, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 3

Justice and that which was life-giving were the concerns in our reading. That which is...

October 02, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 2

The culture wherein these ancient divorce laws were written was predominantly heterosexist and deeply patriarchal.

October 01, 2024

Divorce Just Ain’t What It Used To Be, Part 1

These laws written about divorce were not written with the same cultural practices and assumptions...

September 2024

September 26, 2024

Inclusivity and Taking Care of the Vulnerable, Part 3

We are called to affect and transform our world into a safe, compassionate, just home...

September 25, 2024

Inclusivity and Taking Care of the Vulnerable, Part 2

A central theme of our reading this week is what Liberation Theologians call a preferential...

September 24, 2024

Inclusivity and Taking Care of the Vulnerable, Part 1

Love, inclusivity, justice doesn’t need everyone to be the same in every detail. Inclusivity is...

September 20, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 3

Or are we flipping this script and using this teachings on being servants in ways...

September 18, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 2

It wasn't long before these words on being servants intended to correct those seeking status...

September 17, 2024

Servants of the Most Vulnerable, Part 1

Our reading turns hierarchical ways of structuring our communities upside down, defining leaders as being...

September 12, 2024

Refusing to Passively Endure Injustice, Part 3

Don’t passively endure suffering. Don’t give in when others try to persuade us to patiently...

September 11, 2024

Refusing to Passively Endure Injustice, Part 2

Passively enduring suffering doesn’t give life. Life is found in our active resistance and struggle...

September 10, 2024

Refusing to Passively Endure Injustice, Part 1

Whatever we make of the claim of messiah today, we must be intentional about holding...

September 05, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 3

Today we need more than magical cures that enable people to do better in our...

September 04, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 2

Intersectionality is such a rich lens through which to relate to this Jesus story as...

September 03, 2024

Jesus, a Greek Woman and a Magical Cure, Part 1

The first story is of a Greek woman who approaches Jesus on behalf of her...

August 2024

August 29, 2024

Morality, Culture Wars, and Consent, Part 3

Consent is an egalitarian discussion. It doesn’t privilege any gender above another, or penalize one...

August 28, 2024

Morality, Culture Wars, and Consent, Part 2

This was not a health practice. Hand washing was being used by those in power...

August 27, 2024

Morality, Culture Wars, and Consent, Part 1

They were just one of many religio-political groups in the first century using morality debates...

August 22, 2024

Right Now Matters, Part 3

The future will come. But right now, we are alive. We live in the present....

August 21, 2024

Right Now Matters, Part 2

We live in the right now. Love demands that our material existence, injustice, oppression, violence,...