Tag: faith traditions
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Jesus, Resister: Palm/Passion Sunday
Image: “Bad Day on Wall Street,” Russell Brutche, used by permission Lenten Series: #2, A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Chapter 5: Jesus and the Powers,” in Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. Jesus, Resister: Palm/Passion Sunday All four Gospels portray the religious leaders criticizing Jesus’s…
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The Temptation of Jesus: Resisting Cultural Possession
Image used with permission by Mr. Beardy Arts Lenten Series: #2, A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Chapter 5: Jesus and the Powers,” in Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. “The Temptation of Jesus: Resisting Cultural Possession” There is a call in life to come to…
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A Review by Rev. Richenda Fairhurst
A Review of the Revised Edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change by the Reverend Richenda Fairhurst Also at: Love in a Time of Climate Change: A Review | UMC Creation Justice Overview: Recommend Rev. Sharon Delgado’s newly revised Love in a Time of Climate Change is a tour de force. It maps the…
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Celebrating Christmas: Comfort, Joy, and Social Change
Photo by Sharon Delgado I greet you during this season of celebration. Our indoor “Christmas plant” with its lights and ornaments cheer me, along with candles, evergreen boughs, and other simple decorations. Two days ago I celebrated my birthday quietly with a few family members, then yesterday the Winter Solstice with music and carols, and…
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Easter: Living a Resurrected Life
Easter this year is filled with paradox. How can we understand and celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus when ignorant, cruel, and ideologically driven men in high places dominate public policy and endanger the world? In the midst of the “shock therapy” being administered by the second administration of Donald Trump, who continues to be supported…
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Holy Saturday: Following Jesus
On this Holy Saturday, the last day of Lent, we continue to reflect on the story leading up to the death of Jesus and on what relevance that story has today. What does it mean to follow Jesus in this time of ascending evil, destruction, scapegoating, and death? First, what it does not mean: Following…
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Good Friday: Not a Transaction
Today is Good Friday, the darkest of days, when Christians remember the crucifixion of Jesus and stand by him in his suffering. It is also a dark season in the world, with the Trump Administration endangering global security, targeting immigrants, abandoning climate legislation, dismantling the social safety net, eviscerating education, and unleashing corporations to wreak…
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Maundy Thursday: Gethsemane and the Will of God
“The terrible silence of God in response to Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane was more than a deathly stillness. Mystics have felt it too, in the dark night of the soul in which everything that makes life worth living dries up, and hope disappears from life. Martin Buber called it “the eclipse of God.” –Jürgen Moltmann…
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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…