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Left Behind — remembering the purpose
This week, Jesus offers an apocalyptic vision based in justice, not the rapture — a vision that brings hope for the real world.
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Two reasons the Supreme Court is wrong on race.
The Supreme Court is looking to gut the Civil Rights Act for reasons that we’re not willing to face — they are bad at law and wrong.
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How is the Supreme Court more broken than congress?
The Supreme Court keeps trying to convince us that it doesn’t need to worry about the real world. Or the constitution. Or rights even.
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Why we’re afraid to listen
In proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor, Jesus invites us to see, not an ideal future, but an actual, present command for life.
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The end of privilege—for Advent 1C
The conflict that Jesus speaks to in his apocalyptic talk is about privilege, about fear of loss, about fear of a more just world.
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Division and the fear of change
We struggle to understand the true place of division in our lives, who it serves, and why our fear of it prevents us from achieving justice.
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The Equality Straw Man
There’s a reason the way we talk about equality in the 21st Century isn’t working. It is because it isn’t supposed to.
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Give the kids snow days
The ratcheting effect of ever increasing the expectations of productivity on our kids is destroying our humanity.