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Religion often tells us that we need to try harder to be good people. You know. Obey the laws. Pay your tithe. Don’t listen to rock music. But what if being good misses the point? What if our religious “goodness” is actually part of the problem? Check out our latest sermon for more!
Jesus was an early feminist because he consistently elevated women as models of faith. Few teachers in the ancient world would tell a story about a widow as an example of faith, but Jesus did. Jesus always flips patriarchal expectations upside down. The man in the story is shown to be a bad model of…
I want to be upfront and tell you that as a church that is dedicated to our mission of working for a more just and peaceful world through nonviolent action, we’re going to offend some people. We can expect that to happen. And here’s where I’m having a hard time practicing what I preach: We…
Jesus talked about money a lot because he knew that our relationship to money matters. In our passage, Jesus says that you cannot serve God and wealth. In the original language, the word Jesus used for wealth was mammon. Mammon was an ancient “Syrian deity” a “god of riches,” wealth, and money. People worshipped mammon…
One of the great prophets of our time is a 16-year-old girl from Sweden named Greta Thunberg. Greta is a climate change activist who, like Jeremiah, is determined to speak truth to power. This last Friday, Greta was in Washington DC to lead a protest at the White House, demanding that US politicians at the…
“I started Team Blu because I saw a lot of people who didn’t know how to help and didn’t know how to give. They didn’t know how to flex their power to help other people. And I knew how to do it. … That’s our superpower.” – Blu from #TeamBlu
If you look back through history, you will find that 99 percent of these “Chosen Ones” rule their people with the exact same method. They attempt to unite their people against a common enemy. They prop up a minority group as an extremely dangerous “other” that the people need to defeat. It’s the ancient politics…
The God of Jesus doesn’t approve of cruel American political policies. The God of Jesus doesn’t approve of ICE separating children from their parents. Because the God of Jesus is serving up a party and everyone is invited. It is God’s good pleasure to generously serve everyone, including undocumented immigrants and brown people and black…
Jesus said “Those who live by the sword die by the sword.” I began to wonder, Christians claim to follow Jesus, who warned that anyone who lives by the sword will die by the sword. So how could Christians live by the sword? We can’t. The time has come when we have to put our…