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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
The difference was not wealth but wealth disparity; not its GDP but how much harm it created to produce that GDP. Read more
Pay close attention when certain sectors of Christianity choose to cherry pick and prioritize the death dealing passages of their sacred text, rather than the humanizing and life-giving passages. Read more
So this parable has a collective nature. It’s about how we choose to structure our collective lives together and who we choose to care for. Read more
If we sow the wind, we will be reaping the whirlwind. But we can instead sow love, and justice, and compassion, and safety. Read more
Injustice is unsustainable for the long term. Ancient wisdom in multiple traditions tell us we intrinsically pay, reaping what we sow. Read more
This would contrast starkly with how reaping and sowing are typically interpreted in these stories. Read more
We must actively resist an apocalyptic passivity that doesn’t do much to make sure everyone else has what they need too. Read more