The Politics of Scripturing—Matthew 5:21-37
Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount unsettles many biblicist ways of understanding Scripture. It may even be better to move from speaking of ‘the Scriptures’ as a noun, to speaking of...
View ArticleMountain Theology
The transfiguration stories in scripture, and their mountains, are not places of answers. They are places of raw honesty about our own limits. They are places where words give way to water that flows...
View ArticleEverything, Everywhere, All in Lent
Sometimes, there are no cosmic answers to the cosmic questions around us. Jesus demonstrates that the answer to that question, ‘who are you?’ can only be lived out in relationality to the divine one...
View ArticleThe Politics of Love in John 3:16
1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these...
View ArticleWater Margin
We have a history of commentaries that paints real physical need—experienced by billions worldwide daily—as stupid ingratitude. If we ask YHWH for literal water, pleading with him and testing his...
View ArticleThe Politics of ‘who Sinned?’
Sin exists in the denial of love and compassion. Where there is justice, there God’s work is seen. It is the absence of love and denial of fellowship with one another that defines sin. Being Christ’s...
View ArticleThe Sleepers Must Awaken
We are a people once asleep, now waking to a new world, where our forms of life have done irreparable harm to our earth and helped to unleash a deadly pathogen on ourselves. We must ask, how will these...
View ArticleFrom Hosannas to the Cross
The pairing of Jesus’s celebrated entry into Jerusalem with the story of his Passion by many churches this Sunday presents a kind of emotional whiplash. It offers a warning to how we treat the prophets...
View ArticleWilderness Kingdom
There can be no coherent concept of home, it would appear, apart from borders and boundaries that at once enclose and exclude. This suggests that those without a home … somehow exist beyond the...
View ArticleA Decolonial Reading of the Post-Resurrection Event
Since the risen Christ embodies the gift of hope for those who follow the post-resurrection Christ, our reading of the Johannine narrative on the encounter between the risen Christ and the followers...
View ArticleUnlocking History’s Meaning
Scripture records the political history of the people of God, and if Jesus is the key to the Scripture he must also be the key that unlocks its political history. Source
View ArticleThe Politics of Jesus the Gate
The decoloniality of 'Jesus the gate' exists in building communities of love and trust today, emphasising “I am because we are” and in celebrating our relatedness with one another, transcending all...
View ArticleA Call to be ‘People of the Way’ in the Context of Jesus’ “I am the Way”
"Jesus’ “I am the way” is an opportunity for Christians to demonstrate the path of love to people...it doesn’t warrant any exclusion or hatred towards the other..." Source
View ArticleResisting Colonial Logic in Christian Thinking
As tempting as it might be to assign murderous impulses to so-called former colonial times, Christians would do well to pay attention to how such logic continues to operate today in theological and...
View ArticleThe Ascension and the Politics of Endurance
Contending against the dominion of sin and death requires the same wisdom and willing vulnerability that characterize Jesus. Exemplifying both of these characteristics means seeking a solidarity with...
View ArticleLiving the Dream
Pentecost isn’t simply about the dreams of old men or the prophesies of children; though, these, certainly, are a part. Pentecost is about living the dream. Inspiration—being filled by the spirit, is...
View ArticleThe Nonbinary Creation
The fact that people use Genesis 1 as justification for all of this hate is not only horrifying and appalling, but it’s also, simply put, WRONG. The creation thrums with life purely because God’s love...
View ArticleThe Problematic Blessing of Occupied Land
I want to pretend that the “land flowing with milk and honey” was in fact an unoccupied land—a specially preserved paradise, just waiting for the Israelite people to discover it. But, unfortunately, we...
View ArticleFrom Servitude to Service
The laws at Sinai are no ball-and-chain, implementing a new form of slavery. They express the practical dimensions of life in freedom, the boundaries within which the nation can experience a...
View ArticleLament As Subversive Prayer
In the voices of the oppressed, one can listen to the voice of the divine. In this decolonial reading, one can excavate a liberative hermeneutic, which is life affirming and life nurturing. The lament...
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