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May 2022

May 11, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 2 of 3)

It includes the desire to make sure the objects of our love have what they...

May 10, 2022

Loving One Another and Justice (Part 1 of 3)

This kind of love, too, needs careful defining and explanation to be genuinely life giving...

May 05, 2022

Being Part of One Another (Part 3 of 3)

We thrive together. We survive together. What harms some, always in some way harms everyone.

May 04, 2022

Being Part of One Another (Part 2 of 3)

This community defines itself as “more than” and those who do not define Jesus the...

May 03, 2022

Being Part of One Another (Part 1 of 3)

This can remind Christians both of Jesus’ deep Jewishness, and also how often the language...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 3 of 3)

This spring, may tulips and daffodils not be the only ones waking up from winter,...

April 27, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 2 of 3)

The Hebrew prophetic justice tradition interprets fishing, as a metaphor for removing unjust political rulers...

April 26, 2022

Another Beginning (Part 1 of 3)

Most scholars understand this version of the Jesus story to have ended in chapter 20,...

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.

April 14, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 3 of 3)

This is a story of how life conquers death, love conquers hate, sharing conquers greed,...

April 13, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 2 of 3)

These are valid questions. How can we reconcile seeing the cross event as a salvific...

April 12, 2022

Easter and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering (Part 1 of 3)

One thing that is common to all the gospel narratives is the presence of women...

April 07, 2022

A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 3 of 3)

How we celebrate rituals determines the kind of humans those rituals shape us into being....

April 06, 2022

A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 2 of 3)

This tradition has led quite a few modern Christians to reinterpret how they memorialize Jesus’...

April 05, 2022

A Different Vision for Memorializing the Last Supper (Part 1 of 3)

This time of year always amplifies several passages from the passion liturgy that are important...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 3 of 3)

I don’t believe Jesus’ words in John about poor people should be interpreted as establishing...

March 30, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 2 of 3)

But this interpretation benefits those who are enriched by the status quo and don’t want...

March 29, 2022

Mary’s Perfume and No More Poverty (Part 1 of 3)

Mary’s act is one of gratitude . . . The story is not primarily that...

March 24, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 3 of 3)

As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...

March 23, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 2 of 3)

"Sinner" was the pejorative label that those at the center of Jesus society used to...

March 22, 2022

Excluded by Exclusion (Part 1 of 3)

This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...

March 17, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 3 of 3)

Democratic societies must be made to birth a distributively just society where the needs of...

March 16, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 2 of 3)

This is a good time to pause and reflect on how injustice is unsustainable in...

March 15, 2022

Injustice is Not Sustainable (Part 1 of 3)

I don’t hear the moralistic idea of repentance so many of us are used to...

March 10, 2022

Jesus as Political (Part 3 of 3)

Death is not conquered with more death, even just one more death. Death is conquered...

March 09, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 3 of 3)

This calls into question how we interpret Christian narratives of Jesus’ death and resurrection as...

March 09, 2022

Jesus as Political (Part 2 of 3)

Within this context, any systemic evil or injustice that becomes almost automated within a family,...

March 03, 2022

Jesus as Political (Part 1 of 3)

This phrase immediately triggers me and my more scientific modern worldview and I’d guess it...