This Sunday’s text (Lk 10:1–11) is Jesus’ reiteration—in greater detail—of his earlier “missionary instructions” (9:1–6). This double tradition, unique to Luke, articulates the gospel’s most important—and tragically most disregarded—teaching about evangelism as community-building. In our 2021 Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (pp 132-141), Elaine and I focused on the “short version.” We…
3rd Sunday after Pentecost, 2025 The demons of war: Last Sunday’s gospel spoke poignantly to the moment, Trump having joined the bombing of Iran the day before. In Luke’s story of Gerasa, Jesus names and “banishes” the many demons of imperial militarism that were possessing the man of Gerasa and occupying his land. These demons…
In a backdrop of war and oppression, the call for peace and justice is emphasized through the celebration of Juneteenth and the Lukan gospel of Jesus healing the Gerasene demoniac. A twice-monthly Zoom forum will provide resources for studying gospel readings and engaging discussions, beginning July 2. Registration details are included.
The second half of May, between travel and conferencing at Kirkridge, were demanding and exhausting, so I wasn’t able to get a blog posted last week for Ascension Sunday. So I’ll include a few comments on that before I focus on Pentecost (a longer reflection on the Ascension will appear in this month’s Partner’s Circle…
Twenty-five years ago, BCM began helping build popular schools to nurture radical theological and social movement literacy. This vision arose from conversations with friend/mentor Bill Wylie-Kellermann, who shares a parallel “genealogy of faith” with me. Over the next decade, the Word & World project curated spaces around the country for intersectional community, conspiracy and collaboration…
The post discusses Palm Sunday as a significant closure to Lent, emphasizing its historical and contemporary implications of public liturgy for justice in society. It reflects on Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem as subversive against occupying powers and shares modern practices of reclaiming Palm Sunday through public demonstrations and calls for social justice.
On February 17, 2025, we hosted the “Detox on President’s Day” webinar featuring Ched Myers discussing his book, Healing Affluenza and Resisting Plutocracy, alongside an interview with Chuck Collins, a prominent critic of plutocracy. Cover artist Ted Lyddon Hatten also shared insights about the book’s artwork.
Note: Our “Detox on President’s Day” free webinar is less than two weeks way (to make up for our postponed book party J)! On Mon, Feb 17, 4:30-6 pm PST, Ched will talk about Healing Affluenza and interview Chuck Collins of inequality.org. Chuck (right) is the foremost critic of plutocracy in the U.S., and wrote…
Today is the 500th anniversary of a group of radicals who defied the Zürich city council by baptizing each other as adults the night of January 21, 1525. This fanned the embers of the Radical Reformation and Anabaptist movements.
The fact that Trump’s inauguration will take place on Jan 20th—the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday—is a clear indicator of how confused and conflicted this country is (see a concise commentary by the Boggs Center’s Shea Howell here). So on this January 15th (the actual birthday of our country’s greatest prophet), I’ll offer a few thoughts on the problem of plutocracy in this Second Gilded Age.