Sheep and Goats, Part 3
The difference was not wealth but wealth disparity; not its GDP but how much harm it created to produce that GDP.
View ArticleAdvent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 1
The word advent means arrival. In the gospels we hear both the announcement that hope has arrived, and that it is still on the way.
View ArticleAdvent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 2
Advent would've been a hard sell to say God’s just future had come. They could much more easily attach their hopes on the future.
View ArticleAdvent and the Refusal to Lose Hope, Part 3
That hope is grounded in the reality that we can face those challenges together in more life-giving ways than we can on our own.
View ArticleAdvent and Change from the Margins, Part 1
This advent narrative element clues us in to the fact that the change will be coming from the margins or edges of their community.
View ArticleAdvent and Change from the Margins, Part 2
This Advent, it's helpful to remember John’s wilderness baptisms were economic and political as well as religious.
View ArticleAdvent and Change from the Margins, Part 3
This Advent calls to us to pay attention to what’s happening in our time on the edges, in the grassroots, the wildernesses of our own society.
View ArticleAdvent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 1
In the stories, John the Baptist is dramatically associated with these ancient figures, and this association points the way of joy in Advent.
View ArticleAdvent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 2
These are symbols of long standing within the Jewish society at that time. They debated what fidelity looked like in relation to justice.
View ArticleAdvent and the Joy of Working for a Better World, Part 3
As difficult as doing preparation work in the wilderness is at times, there is joy this Advent in knowing what you are preparing the way for.
View ArticleSubversive Narratives of Advent, Part 1
If we are going to arrive at life-giving applications of this Advent story for our social context today, we must begin here.
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It was an advent of a life-giving system in the here and now as an alternative to their system of economic extraction.
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This was an Advent of a gospel rooted in the Golden rule, enemy love, nonviolence, resource-sharing, wealth redistribution as restoration and reparations, and more.
View ArticleEpiphany, Baptism, Solidarity and Justice, Part 1
In this epiphany story another star (comet) appears. This time not at a caesar’s death as a token of his divinity, but at an infants birth.
View ArticleEpiphany, Baptism, Solidarity and Justice, Part 2
The entire Epiphany narrative in Matthew speaks of liberation and justice for those pushed to the undersides and edges of their society.
View ArticleEpiphany, Baptism, Solidarity and Justice, Part 3
As we reflect on Epiphany and the establishment of justice in the themes of Jesus’ Baptism, where are we working for justice today?
View ArticleJacob’s Ladder, Part 1
It’s not honesty or freedom from deceit as our story subtly (sarcastically) points out here, but harmful bias.
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These show us what the gospel call was. It was not to simply accept a gift and then go on living in the system as you always had.
View ArticleJacob’s Ladder, Part 3
Where do we still long for justice? Jacob's ladder reminds us that change is still possible and still worth working toward.
View ArticleExorcism of a Man with an Unclean Spirit, Part 3
This specific in augural exorcism story in Mark's gospel would have been read systematically and not individually.
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