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(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 13, 2020
Unforgetting U.S. Crimes: The Karmic Roots of Our Border Problems SUNDAY HOMILY: The problems at our borders are simply blowback from our country's own criminal missteps in Central America.

(35 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 30, 2020
Beware: Conspiracy Theorists May Be Prophetically Correct SUNDAY HOMILY: Can critical thinkers really get away with classifying those we disagree with as "bad guys" or as "the enemy?"
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(16 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 16, 2020
A Palestinian Woman Schools Jesus (and Us) About small god faith SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings use humor (at Jesus' expense) to show that small god faith is the root of diabolically deep divides separating us from those we despise as somehow "foreign."
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(13 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 9, 2020
My Confusion & Fear of Walking on Water SUNDAY HOMILY: In a context more troubling and uncertain than our own,followers of Yeshua were asked to do the impossible -- to walk on water themselves. So are we.

(26 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Do the Terms "Left" & "Right" Still Have Meaning? The Case of Sacha Stone Do the terms "left" and "right" apply anymore? Or is this a time for progressives to seek common grounds with conservatives? Please join OpEd readers as we discuss this question next Saturday at 8:00 pm.

(34 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 2, 2020
Is the God You Accept (or Reject) Small or Big? The Catholic fundamentalist version of Christianity and its white evangelical counterpart are hopelessly dead to most of us former believers. Basically, it's because the god of such faith is so very small. But wait; there's an alternative.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 26, 2020
A Biblical Warning About Stable Geniuses Like Solomon (& DJT) SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings present us with contradictory ideas about God and God's order. They reveal Solomon as cunning a "stable genius" as Donald Trump.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(21 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 25, 2020
Five Reasons Why Christians Should Feel UNcomfortable Voting for Trump in 2020 Trump's God is not only unbiblical, he is also basically white, ethnocentric and specifically American.

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 19, 2020
Remember: U.S. Wars on Muslims Continue Even During CV-19 & BLM Uprisings SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings suggest that Americans withdraw support for the U.S. military and from Washington's policy of state terrorism against impoverished Muslims in the Middle East.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 6, 2020
"Hamilton" Revisited: You Read It Here First! Nearly 5 years ago, I alienated my entire family by giving "Hamilton" a negative review. Now, however, the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing audiences around to something like my original point.

(9 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 5, 2020
The Biblical Call to Woke, Politically Correct Identity Politics SUNDAY HOMILY: Take heart if they accuse you of advocating identity politics, deride you as a social justice warrior, woke, politically correct, a conspiracy theorist, or a whatabouter. All of those categories should actually be embraced by anyone with critical consciousness.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(31 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 28, 2020
The Biblical Case for Black Supremacy SUNDAY HOMILY: The black voices resonating in our streets are far more perceptive, informed, and prophetic than anything we hear from white politicians and talking heads on TV. In effect, the tumult in the streets calls us to recognize the truth of black supremacy.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(17 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 21, 2020
Jeremiads for America: Six Unspeakable Propositions (& One Glimmer of Hope) SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings and the prophetic traditions they represent remind us that what makes America great are those who resist all forms of white supremacy and its law enforcement.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(8 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 12, 2020
America's "Les Miz" Moment: What's Really Happening? Like the self-immolation of a Tunisian street vendor in 2010, like the subway fare hike in Chile, the police murder of George Floyd put a torch to the tinder of discontent that's long been awaiting its first incendiary spark.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 7, 2020
Face It: America's God Is Violence TRINITY SUNDAY HOMILY: Most American Christians would laugh in your face if you suggested taking literally Jesus' words about love and forgiveness of enemies as a guide for national policy.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 31, 2020
Don't Support the Hong Kong Protesters PENTECOST SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings and class-conscious considerations suggest we should be standing with the Chinese government and not with our own.

(15 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 25, 2020
A Debate on China: Competitor, Adversary or Enemy? China is actually a champion of the very human rights that the United States refuses to recognize.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Jordan & Gender: Workers' Power to Undo Patriarchy "The Last Dance" helps us better understand the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy in which all of us live and move and have our being -- and how to overthrow it.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 10, 2020
No Room for Hunger & Homelessness in Our Great Mother's "House of Spirits" MOTHERS' DAY SUNDAY HOMILY: Taking seriously the centralization of housing described in today's readings should lead us to dissent from our culture's treatment of the homeless and incarcerated -- especially of single mothers.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (129 Articles, 197897 views)

(12 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 5, 2020
"Planet of the Humans:" Its Misleading Message "Planet of the Humans" ignores the environmental movement of the past 10 years, while arguing at the same time that a new more radical movement is required.

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