Like many of us, I took time to reflect during the 9/11 quarter-century commemoration. That horrible moment understandably became a critical inflection point for U.S. politics and culture. Yet it is estimated that a third of the current U.S. population was born after that fateful day, and so do not carry its existential weight (right,…
From July 10-13 BCM and a local team hosted Fr. Emmanuel Asi of Maktaba-e-Anaveem PAK/People’s Forum for Contextual Theologies (right, a book launch at MAP). Asi is a leading promoter of liberation theology and women’s rights and empowerment throughout South Asia (see here and here). Andrew Jilani, a parishioner at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in…
BCM board member John Parker, who’s been rolling with us since 1999, always has his finger on the pulse of faith and justice work in North Carolina. He alerted us to the May 18 issue of the Alban Weekly, which gave our work a shout out (emphasis ours): As ministers and congregations bask in…
Immigrant Rights through a Pentecost Lens:Divine Polyculture vs. Imperial Monoculture Publishing at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets and soil has been at the heart of BCM’s work for almost thirty years. Because our books prior to HHH and HARP were similarly deep dives into faith and justice, they maintain their relevance, since threats to…
We invite you, in these hard days, to step away for a long weekend of replenishment through bible study, workshops, art, song, worship, ritual, campfires, imagining of new worlds, and the flowering beauty of the Pocono mountains in the spring.
PODCASTS: Our friend Ragan Sutterfeld just released an hour-long interview he did late last year with the Ekklesia Project about the Bible, Christian Zionism and the war on Palestine. He talks with Ched and our Canadian colleague Sylvia Keesmaat (right). Check it out here. We’re getting to know young Sabeel activist theologian Thanh Nguyen; Ched…
 Last Friday was the Feast of La Virgen de Guadalupe. At right is a retablo, a hybrid style of indigenous artistry, centuries of Catholic iconography, and Spanish culture. Retablos are small oil paintings on tin, zinc, wood, or copper which were used in home altars to honor saints.  This one has hung in our…
Lk 18:35-19:28: 21st Sunday after Pentecost Jesus concluded the twinned teaching of Lk 18:1-14 (the last two Sunday’s readings) by reiterating his pronouncement from 14:11: “The exalted will be brought down, and the humbled lifted up” (18:14b). This both looks back to Mary’s Magnificat (1:52), and forward to this Sunday’s gospel: the story of Zacchaeus…
I love how this parable disrupts our still heavily male-focused culture by celebrating and centering the agency of women—thus my subtitle “Hersistence”! There is so much in which to delight in this story of the tenacious prayer and public resistance of this unnamed protagonist, who is truly a great ancestor of women’s personal and political…
17th Sunday after Pentecost (10/5/25): Lk 17:5-10 This week’s blog will be brief, as the next two Sundays call on texts in Lk 17 which I don’t really exposit in HARP. However, the RCL gospel for this week has a key connection to Luke’s narrative of Sabbath Economics. The famous “mustard seed faith” saying promises…