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(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 2, 2020
The Enlightened Jesus (Like Us) Rejects the Faith of His Childhood SUNDAY HOMILY: Could it be that it is the human vocation to be loyal church members until (like Jesus) we realize our religion's hypocrisy, its cooperation with oppression and its need of reform?
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(7 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 26, 2020
Border Reality in Tijuana: Its Horror, Heartbreak - and Heroism SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings, are about escapees from persecution similar to what heroic refugees from Mexico and Central America have experienced. Surprisingly, today's Gospel reading shows that Jesus himself was one of those escapees.
Series: Mexican Border Diary (3 Articles, 7862 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(9 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 19, 2020
Report from the Border: Christians Torturing Christians, Lawyers Following Jesus SUNDAY HOMILY: Here at the Tijuana border, sadistic cruelty on the part of professed Christians puts obstacle after illegal obstacle in front of mostly non-white fellow Christians seeking a healthier, safer life for their children and themselves
Series: Mexican Border Diary (3 Articles, 7862 views), Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 7, 2020
When God Had A Wife: Ashera, Magdalene & Modern Biblical Scholarship The world's disastrous patriarchal spirituality stands in sharp contradiction to earliest biblical traditions. There, in both its Jewish and Christian Testaments the sacred feminine was originally honored as much as the sacred masculine.

(24 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 29, 2019
Republicans' Fake Good News About Jesus' Poverty SUNDAY HOMILY: If Jesus was poor and a refugee from state violence, the whole anti-poor, anti-refugee program of the Republican Party is nullified at least from the standpoint of faith.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(21 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 25, 2019
The Christmas Story: Fact or Fiction? Last Sunday, minutes before the curtain went up on our church's annual Christmas pageant, one of the shepherds (my 7-year old grandson) asked me rather aggressively, "What's the evidence that Jesus ever lived? How do we know? Huh? Huh? Where's the evidence?"

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 16, 2019
Brexit: UK Joins World-Wide Rebellion against Neoliberalism Last week's UK elections have issued a clarion call to reform all free trade pacts while suggesting a clear direction for doing so.

(13 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 1, 2019
Pope Francis Calls Possession of Nuclear Weapons Sinful SUNDAY HOMILY (FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT): Last weekend, Pope Francis outright condemned the manufacture and possession of nuclear weapons. I'll bet you didn't notice that in the mainstream media.

(9 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 27, 2019
A World on Fire: The Establishment's Counter-Revolution against Democracy The world is on fire not (as the NYT would have it) because of a revolt against populism. Instead, the rebellion is against neoliberal austerity, specifically anti-populist U.S. policy, and against capitalism itself.

(14 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 24, 2019
"Christ the King:" How Jesus Became Donald Trump SUNDAY HOMILY: The readings for today's feast of "Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe" explain how Jesus was transformed from the leader of an anti-imperial revolutionary movement into a pillar supporting the very institutions that assassinated him.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 17, 2019
The Plowshares 7 Are Convicted for Following Jesus' Resistance to State Oppression SUNDAY HOMILY: The Plowshares 7 teach us that actually following the martyr Jesus - the tortured one, the one imprisoned on death row, the victim of capital punishment - is never easy.

(21 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Put the Brakes on the 5G Revolution Before It's Too Late It's not really "us" who need to win the race to implement 5G technology. Instead, the potential winners are multinational corporations like Verizon and Sprint who are competing for patents and billions in profits from this unnecessary boondoggle project. They simply don't care about us or our grandchildren.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 10, 2019
Support for "Terrorist" Heroes Is Part of the Judeo-Christian Tradition SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's first reading raises the question: Are the real terrorists the forces of empire or those who resist them?
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 3, 2019
Marianne Williamson, Reparations & Changing Our World Vision SUNDAY HOMILY: Marianne Williamson is the only candidate who (like Jesus) confronts us with the undeniable truth that humanity needs a fundamental change in consciousness if we are to address the unprecedented problems facing us on all sides.

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 27, 2019
How We Rich Exclude Ourselves from the Kingdom of God SUNDAY HOMILY: Imagine God's Kingdom in terms of the ghetto, the barrio or favela. Rich white people don't want to be there.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(20 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 20, 2019
A Frightening Child & Prayer to Save the Planet SUNDAY HOMILY: This wisp of a girl exercising her super-powers of concentration and focus suddenly had the movers and shakers of the world shaking with fear.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 13, 2019
The Biblical Tradition Advocates Healthcare for All - Even for Enemies of the State SUNDAY HOMILY: This week's readings call us to extend healthcare to the poor, to foreigners, and to anyone we are taught to fear and hate.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 29, 2019
Dives & Lazarus: a primer on liberation theology SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's liturgy of the word provides a virtual catechism of liberation theology, Christianity's most important theological development in the last 1500 years, and the West's most important social movement of the last 150 years.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(13 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 22, 2019
Clarifying Economic (& Theological) Terms in the Capitalism-Socialism Debate SUNDAY HOMILY: Today's readings criticize the "spirit of capitalism." They also suggest a need to clarify in simple terms what we mean by "capitalism," "socialism," and "mixed economies." The latter are all we have.
Series: Sunday Homilies for Progressives (156 Articles, 265979 views)

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 9, 2019
Marianne Williamson and the Power of Prayer The controversy sparked by Marianne. Williamson's tweet about Hurricane Dorian demonstrates once again the indispensability of her candidacy.

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