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April 2025

April 24, 2025
As Jesus was sent into our world, so we have been sent. But our sending has...
April 23, 2025
In Luke the commission is about justice for the oppressed. In John it includes binding...
April 22, 2025
The post resurrection appearance stories of the Jesus tradition were very important to the early...
April 17, 2025
The earliest form of the good news, that we still need today, is not that...
April 16, 2025
Marginalized communities have spent years critiquing theologies that center on death rather than how life...
April 16, 2025
The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christianity for two millennia. The original...
April 10, 2025
Moving from teaching to protest happens in the story on the back of a young...
April 09, 2025
This kind of peace and liberation will not come stronger violence, but through the holistic...
April 08, 2025
The prophets envisioned a different kind of peace achieved through a different type of means....
April 03, 2025
Poverty is a by-product of the system in which we live. It is man-made and...
April 02, 2025
Characterizing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute advanced the goals of disparaging women as leaders in...
April 01, 2025
Our story this week involving Mary was used to disparage women leaders within Christianity toward...

March 2025

March 27, 2025
It wasn’t enough to enable more people to compete for power. The prodigal story envisions...
March 26, 2025
They were simply different. Applying the term sinner to this group only served to socially...
March 25, 2025
In the prodigal story, the label “sinner” was assigned to anyone being politically or socially...
March 20, 2025
Systems of injustice are never sustainable. This year's Lent can be superficial and temporary or...
March 19, 2025
Next in our reading is the tower of Siloam. This example is much more cryptic....
March 18, 2025
Our reading isn’t about personal, private repentance for individual misdeeds. Like the Hebrew prophets of...
March 13, 2025
In the face of so many who are being hurt right now, may we, too,...
March 12, 2025
All of this causes me to consider those courageously standing up against brutal acts being...
March 11, 2025
Standing up to power and saying, "No," was central to the Hebrew, prophetic, justice tradition...
March 06, 2025
This year, the story of the temptations calls Christians who bear responsibility for the mess...
March 05, 2025
Written in the language of the fantastic, these were a conspicuously veiled critique of their...
March 04, 2025
The current political environment in the U.S. has given us a different lens to read...

February 2025

February 27, 2025
Who are the Moseses and Elijahs of our day? Transfiguration challenges us to stand with...
February 26, 2025
These elements were so central to these early followers they became known as people of...
February 25, 2025
Moses and Elijah, both, are symbols of accomplished societal justice and liberation for the masses...
February 20, 2025
While we work for justice, we reject judging another human being’s worth or value as...
February 19, 2025
Enemy love means both not cooperating with, resisting or obstructing violence and injustice, and also...
February 18, 2025
Too often turning the other cheek is interpreted as passive nonresitance rather than the cultural...
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