Sharon Delgado

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Category: The Powers

  • The Death of Jesus in Context

    The Death of Jesus in Context

    As we move through the story of Jesus’s death and on to resurrection, we return to the primary themes of this Lenten blog series on “Creation, Cross, and the Powers.” This story is often told as if it all took place removed from the context of both creation and the powers. It is treated not…

  • Don’t Look Up

    Don’t Look Up

    “You will indeed listen, but never understand, and you will indeed look, but never perceive. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart, and…

  • Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance

    Being-at-one is not individualist self-realization but moves beyond that to change death-oriented reality. Being-at-one shares itself and realizes itself in the ways of resistance.             Dorothee Soelle Lent is always a fruitful time for me, a time to reset my focus and reestablish practices that nourish my soul. Prayer is at…

  • The Spirituality of an Epoch

    Whether one is oppressed or privileged, structures and spirits like white supremacy, patriarchy, domination are within us, embedded invisibly in our psyches. Name them and pray them out.    Bill Wylie- Kellermann, in Principalities in Particular My previous post, Extraordinary Temptations, was about the temptations Jesus experienced in the wilderness. Who (or what) was this…

  • Extraordinary Temptations

    Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4: 1-13, Mark 1:9-15 The suggested Bible readings for the first Sunday in Lent are always about Jesus encountering the devil in the wilderness. This is the perfect theme for this second post of my Lenten series, “Creation, Cross, and The Powers.” Jesus has just been baptized. He has received an extraordinary…

  • Creation, Cross, and The Powers

    “Remember O Mortal that you are dust, and to dust you will return.” I started today with a sparsely attended early morning Ash Wednesday service. On this first day of Lent, I heard these words that resound through the ages as ashes were used to make the sign of the cross on my forehead. The…

  • Stringfellow: The Powers in the Midst of Creation

    Readers of my books will know that my theology of the powers has been strongly influenced by the works of William Stringfellow. On April 21-23, I will be co-facilitating this upcoming conference on “The Powers in the Midst of Creation” with Bill Wylie-Kellerman, a foremost scholar of Stringfellow who has written extensively on the powers.…

  • Video Preview of the Cross in the Midst of Creation

    Hi, friends. Today I want to tell you about my new book, the Cross in the Midst of Creation. Two things motivated me to write this book: my love for creation (and that includes our human family) and my love for the good news of Jesus, the gospel.  If you love creation and are distressed…

  • 5. The Anti-Imperial Wisdom of God

    Fifth Post in a Blog Series on the Christian Right This series of posts on The Christian Right includes excerpts from my new book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World. If you Contact me with the words “free chapter,” I will send you a free chapter of the book.…

  • 3. US Civil Religion: Heretical and Blasphemous

    Third Post in a Blog Series on the Christian Right This series of posts on The Christian Right includes excerpts from my new book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World. If you Contact me with the words “free chapter,” I will send you a free chapter of the book.…