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May 2026

May 07, 2026

Encountering the Divine in Working for Justice

As people engaged in justice work are grounded in love, we come to experience a...

May 06, 2026

Spirit Advocate and Social Injustice

An advocate is most needed where there is injustice; where voices are silenced, where systems...

May 05, 2026

Love Expressed in Actions Related to Justice

Love here is not abstract, but an expression of relational justice confronting harmful systems in...

January 2025

January 09, 2025

The Justice of the Prophets in Our Context Today

May we renew our commitments to justice today and our dedication to taking care of...

January 08, 2025

Justice and the Prophets

We are called to work for justice in our contexts in the same way. What...

January 07, 2025

Justice and the Spirit of Love

So many prophetic voices throughout the centuries have called for justice. This week's reading calls...

May 2024

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 25, 2023

Justice, Part 3 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice

One way to redeem this passage is to connect it to John 20. To inhale...

May 24, 2023

The Material, Part 2 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice

We need a holistic interpretation where people’s spiritual wellbeing is connected to their material economic,...

May 23, 2023

The Ethereal, Part 1 of Pentecost and a Spirit of Justice

There is a tendency here to devalue the material, concrete, physical realities in which people...

May 11, 2023

Ethics and Values, Part 3 of Loving What Jesus Taught

Considering the ethics and values within the Jesus story, loving Jesus means actually loving the...

May 10, 2023

Advocacy, Part 2 of Loving What Jesus Taught

For the original audiences of the synoptics, “advocate” would have called to mind a deep...

May 09, 2023

Advocate, Part 1 of Loving What Jesus Taught

I grew up hearing Christians interpret the Advocate as an intermediary interposing between sinful humans...

March 2023

March 16, 2023

John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 3 of 3)

All in all, John chapter 9 is a reminder to me that today, we need...

March 15, 2023

John Chapter 9 and Our Need To Tell A Better Story (Part 2 of 3)

This is important because of the atrocities by Christians against the Jewish community that can...

March 09, 2023

A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 3 of 3)

The path we are set on assists us in transforming our world into a just,...

March 08, 2023

A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 2 of 3)

A world that is safe for everyone means including those presently marginalized, a theme that...

March 07, 2023

A World That Is Safe for Everyone (Part 1 of 3)

As we consider a world that is safe for everyone, our reading explains why this...

April 2022

April 21, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 3 of 3)

Each resurrection story defines the resurrection in ways that cause his life work to continue...

April 20, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 2 of 3)

How many times have we seen those who harm others or benefit from that harm...

April 19, 2022

Breathing In Spirit, Exhaling Love and Justice (Part 1 of 3)

Forgiveness divorced from that spirit serves to only perpetuate oppression and harm.

August 2021

August 19, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 3 of 3)

Love and justice are connected in the gospels. Proclaiming love, specifically a universal love of...

August 18, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 2 of 3)

This definition brings to my mind Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, the economic justice found...

August 17, 2021

Universal Love Means Universal Thriving (Part 1 of 3)

Christianity has a long history of harmfully categorizing things of "the flesh” as evil and...

November 2019

November 11, 2019

Stop Drinking The Kool-Aid

"For those at the top of an exploitative social pyramid who are privileged, advantaged, and...