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July 2021

July 16, 2021

Ticket to Heaven or Concrete, Earthly Liberation (Part 3 of 3)

Whether we call it the reign of God or God’s just future or simply a...

July 15, 2021

Ticket to Heaven or Concrete, Earthly Liberation (Part 2 of 3)

This scene is not about heaven or later, but about what people are experiencing here...

July 14, 2021

Ticket to Heaven or Concrete, Earthly Liberation (Part 1 of 3)

The itinerant liberator image of Jesus that we encounter in Mark raises a question of...

May 2021

May 06, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 3)

We can explore ways that understanding Universal love that lead us, not to private, assured...

May 05, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 2)

Love that only leaves the privileged in a conscience-appeased state so they can sleep better...

May 04, 2021

The Inherent Relationship of Love and Justice (Part 1)

There is a way to teach God’s love that is complicit in oppression and harmful...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 3)

I’m concerned about the type of fruit so many White, straight, cisgender Christians are producing....

April 29, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 2)

Although the passage we began with focuses on bearing fruit rather than being a dead...

April 28, 2021

Branches Grafted to a Poisonous Vine (Part 1)

After almost two centuries of Christian patriarchy gendering God as exclusively male, we must recognize...

April 22, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 3)

When we choose to make justice ultimately win, not just in isolated occurrences but systemically,...

April 21, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 2)

This story that so many White Christians hold dear puts God on the side of...

April 20, 2021

Imagery of a Good Shepherd (Part 1)

Even today when you do a simple image search for Jesus, you’ll get ten or...

April 15, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 3)

It’s a story that is intended to awaken in us the choice to shape a...

April 14, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 2)

The kind of repentance that leads to that kind of forgiveness, then, is a social...

April 12, 2021

Social Repentance and Change (Part 1)

The gospels’ post resurrection appearance stories follow a familiar pattern that meets the expectations of...

April 08, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 3)

We must be careful not to spiritualize these elements. What is does concrete good news...

April 07, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 2)

"I understand this is a subtle difference in interpretation but it creates a huge difference...

April 06, 2021

Being Sent for the Work of Justice (Part 1)

The Jesus of John’s story doesn’t do things instead of us, as our substitute so...

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 3)

God’s power never expresses itself through the humiliation or denigration of another. It does not...

April 01, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 2)

The book of Acts offers just one example of this alternative focus and emphasis; the...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

The Good News of Forceful Nonviolent Resurrection (Part 1)

The good news was not that Jesus died, or even that he died for you....

March 25, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 3)

We could choose to be last in line to oppose those progressive visions for American...

March 24, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 2)

Jesus was crucified by Rome not because he was starting a new religion, but because...

March 23, 2021

The Politics of Jesus (Part 1)

Not one conception in Jewish history fits Luke’s description of how Mary conceived Jesus. But...

March 19, 2021

Reinterpreting the Easter Story (Part 3)

Let’s not ask ourselves how we can die. Jesus doesn’t call a person do die,...

March 17, 2021

Reinterpreting the Easter Story (Part 2)

"The central image of Christ on the cross as the savior of the world communicates...

March 16, 2021

Reinterpreting the Easter Story (Part 1)

Certain interpretations of these passages have born destructive and even death-dealing fruit in these communities....

March 12, 2021

Transparency and the Vilification of Darkness (Part 3)

When public consciousness is raised, change isn’t very far behind, and change is what those...

March 10, 2021

Transparency and the Vilification of Darkness (Part 2)

It’s about them coopting the darkness, which is not inherently evil, and using the darkness...

March 09, 2021

Transparency and the Vilification of Darkness (Part 1)

“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for...