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September 2023

September 28, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 3

There is a lesson in this for us. Don’t get side tracked or distracted by...

September 27, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 2

He doesn’t waste time defending his right to speak out or his right to exist....

September 26, 2023

What Gives You The Right to Call for Change? Part 1

We glean wisdom here as we stand in solidarity with the those in underprivileged social...

January 2023

January 27, 2023

A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 3 of 3)

These words are Jesus’ vision for a world here, now, today, where those presently being...

January 26, 2023

A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 2 of 3)

A new iteration rejects focusing on prescribing virtues we are to develop individually, whereby the...

January 24, 2023

A New Iteration of Our Present World (Part 1 of 3)

It is helpful to remember that these words are descriptive, not prescriptive. They have long...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 3 of 3)

In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...

June 23, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 2 of 3)

But the story actually prioritizes and centers this marginalized woman over the named, male, synagogue...

June 22, 2021

A Preferential Option for the Excluded (Part 1 of 3)

The contrasting social locations of these recipients of Jesus’ work is one of the most...

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Jesus and Protest (Part 3)

Change for those being harmed never happens fast enough. But in each of our circles...

March 03, 2021

Jesus and Protest (Part 2)

Mark's version of the story is not speaking about Jesus' own death and resurrection as...

March 02, 2021

Jesus and Protest (Part 1)

In one sense, it was a religious act for those who considered faithfulness to the...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Gaining the World, Losing One’s Humanity (Part 3)

Yet what’s at stake is larger than democracy. As Jesus called his followers, we’re called...

February 24, 2021

Gaining the World, Losing One’s Humanity (Part 2)

The concern is not partisan politics. The concern is humanity, the common good, the good...

February 23, 2021

Gaining the World, Losing One’s Humanity (Part 1)

That is the political or social context in which we must understand the above passage....

February 19, 2021

Salt, Light, and Cautious Optimism, Part 3

We can exhale deep relief from the political transition we have just witnessed. And we...

February 17, 2021

Salt, Light, and Cautious Optimism, Part 2

It will not be enough to see a more diverse neoliberalism in response to the...

February 15, 2021

Salt, Light, and Cautious Optimism, Part 1

Compassion and safety for everyone are just two plants that grow in the soil of...

February 09, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 3

Jesus modeled listening to those who belong to oppressed communities, and going deeper through that...

February 03, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 2

What we are encountering in this gospel story today would today be called intersectionality.

February 01, 2021

Learning to Listen, Part 1

This passage may be speaking about ways that oppressed and disinherited people can allow the...

January 2021

January 08, 2021

Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 3 of 3)

This vision is of a world of social structures rooted in love for all. In...

January 06, 2021

Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 2 of 3)

Today, we must hold on to the hope that a different iteration of our world...

January 04, 2021

Reimagining Our World in 2021 (Part 1 of 3)

If Mark could offer good news or "gospel" in the midst of such loss for...

December 2020

December 24, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 9)

Lifting up the poor and pulling down the elite is a direct call to reducing...

December 22, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 8)

Luke’s songs of social, political, and economic deliverance for the poor, marginalized, peasants announce that...

December 21, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 7)

Luke’s birth narratives are centered in the social location of the common people rather than...

December 18, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 6)

These stories are political. They are rooted in the hunger of an oppressed people for...

December 16, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 5)

Originally, Jewish liberation movements used phrases like this. But we must leave these phrases in...

December 14, 2020

The Concrete Liberation Narratives of Advent (Part 4)

Including the Magi in his story about had both international political and religious implications. And Matthew’s...