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March 2022

March 02, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 2 of 3)

The means by which we obtain our bread—whether those means are just, life-giving, and sustainable—matters...

March 01, 2022

Myth of Redemptive Sacrifice (Part 1 of 3)

For many Christians, this weekend marks the first weekend of Lent, which commemorates the 40...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

Encouragement When the Work is Lonely and Hard (Part 3 of 3)

Have you had moments when you, also, have had to make some pretty difficult decisions?...

February 23, 2022

Encouragement When the Work is Lonely and Hard (Part 2 of 3)

In this transfiguration story, the early Jesus followers are trying earnestly to make sense of...

February 22, 2022

Encouragement When the Work is Lonely and Hard (Part 1 of 3)

Christianity has become filled with antisemitic interpretations of the transfiguration. Here's an alternative.

February 17, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 3 of 3)

Our choices show not only what kind of people we want to be; they also...

February 16, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 2 of 3)

Jesus recommended nakedness in protest over returning violence with more violence.

February 15, 2022

Setting in Motion a Safe, Compassionate, Just Society (Part 1 of 3)

We reject any interpretation that demands we feel some kind of love or positive emotion...

February 10, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 3 of 3)

We can choose to bend the arc of the universe toward justice for everyone. That...

February 09, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 2 of 3)

If the elite and privileged all speak well of you, then chances are this week’s...

February 08, 2022

When Social Justice is Rejected and Spoken of as Evil (Part 1 of 3)

Just because you’re being criticized doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the right track, and being...

February 03, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 3 of 3)

This story places people before profit—especially people who are being harmed, marginalized, excluded, and killed.

February 02, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 2 of 3)

In several Hebrew scriptures, fishing for people was about hooking or catching a certain kind...

February 01, 2022

Decolonizing Fishing for People (Part 1 of 3)

This interpretation has made Christian missionary efforts vulnerable to being coopted by European and later...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Jesus and Antisemitism (Part 3 of 3)

We don’t have to disparage Jewish people, Jewish wisdom, or Judaism to value Jesus and...

January 26, 2022

Jesus and Antisemitism (Part 2 of 3)

As the Jesus community became primarily Gentile, it added anti-Jewish elements to our sacred stories,...

January 25, 2022

Jesus and Antisemitism (Part 1 of 3)

Christians have little credibility critiquing other groups when there is so much housekeeping that needs...

January 20, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 3 of 3)

There are so many of us today who benefit from the violence of our present...

January 19, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 2 of 3)

Of all the passages in the Hebrew scriptures that the author of Luke could have...

January 18, 2022

Liberation for the Oppressed (Part 1 of 3)

This choice not only reveals a passion for those being marginalized in any system, but...

January 13, 2022

Following Jesus in the Time of Covid (Part 3 of 3)

We already have a mandate in place: love your neighbor as yourself. This mandate requires...

January 12, 2022

Following Jesus in the Time of Covid (Part 2 of 3)

What designates one as a follower of Jesus is not the creeds we mentally assent...

January 11, 2022

Following Jesus in the Time of Covid (Part 1 of 3)

We don’t have to disparage any other religion, especially not Judaism, to value the Jesus...

January 06, 2022

Jesus’ Baptism as Social Protest (Part 3 of 3)

This makes me wonder what our baptism-like rituals today are. How do we, too, publicly...

January 05, 2022

Jesus’ Baptism as Social Protest (Part 2 of 3)

John's baptism invited people to denounce injustice, to cleanse the canvas so to speak for...

January 04, 2022

Jesus’ Baptism as Social Protest (Part 1 of 3)

The one “in whom I am well pleased” was to be associated with the world...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 3 of 3)

We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her...

December 22, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 2 of 3)

Joseph is neither centered nor given any voice at all in this story. Let's talk...

December 21, 2021

Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women (Part 1 of 3)

The Christmas and childhood narratives of Jesus in the gospels are following an ancient format....

December 16, 2021

The Feminist Liberation of Advent (Part 3)

Mary's story, like Jael’s and Judith’s, is much more scandalous. The life growing in here...