…especially as it regards how we build the community of faith. As we converse with the scriptures our goal is hospitality, but hospitality cannot ignore the danger of past ideas,…
…Scriptures that Jesus would rise and none of them was altogether willing to burst forward with faith simply on the word of someone else who had seen the Lord. Thomas…
…Hebrew Scriptures and introduces us to the story of Rizpah from 2 Samuel. It is a riveting tale of the abuse of power, powerlessness, and exclusion. It tells how religious…
…that the reign of God is not neutral. Jesus’ lived example demonstrates that we must be on the side of the poor. The liberating God of love depicted throughout scripture…
…our spiritual practices, and our own inspired readings of scripture and tradition. We look to our bodies, our desires, and other territories where we know the Spirit of God is…
…those who are subsumed by complacent narratives that uphold both hetero- and homonormativity. Mining the Christian tradition and its scriptures for models of our vision of queerness also demands that…
…little boys stepped to the mic to read a scripture and offer the installation prayer for their “Daddy,” as they referred to him, I don’t think there was a dry…
…have their teeth “set on edge” and have the aftertaste of “sour grapes” (verse 29). In the New Covenant scriptures, we see and hear Jesus carving out a new depth…
…work with typical sources (e.g. texts, scriptures) or less-conventional sources (e.g. oral traditions, social media, laws, etc.). For a possible co-sponsored session with Global Critical Philosophies Nuancing the relation of…
…their checkbooks to outdo one another with gifts. In this vivid pericope, Matthew recalls his people’s Scriptures, the words of a beloved prophet, “Nations shall come to your light. ….
…religion, confusing “politics’” and “religion.” R. N. Berki wrote in 1972: Marcuse sharply distinguishes between Freudian psychoanalytic science and Freudian “metapsychology,” criticizing Freud’s own secularist beliefs about the truth of…