The story of my short sojourn in Palestine 22 years ago and what I learned from the Palestinians. This is a slightly revised sermon that I delivered at Pasadena Mennonite Church in August of 2001 ..read more

My personal Facebook page is on the same account as the podcast page. It was hacked and then Facebook suspended it. I have alerted them to the hack and appealed the suspension, but as of this writing it is still suspended. A part of me suspects that this is just Facebook trying to silence those who speak out about the genocide in Gaza, something that I was doing extensively on my personal page. I'm probably wrong about that, but I'm taking this as an opportunity to speak out on this podcast and urge everyone to do whatever you can to stop the genocide in Gaza. What Hamas did was horrid, but it ..read more

The Gospel overturns not just the order of society but our conception of God as well. When Jesus cries out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" we should be shocked. We should not just gloss over the implications of such a statement in this story about God revealed in a human Palestinian Jewish peasant. It may be an earth shattering revelation about what "God" is really like and where "God" is found ..read more

This episode is a sermon that I delivered at Pasadena Mennonite Church on September 17, 2023. In this sermon I connect the dots between U.S. military and economic aggression abroad with domestic housing justice. The passages cited are: Matthew 12:46-50 Mark 10:29-30 Matthew 6:19-21 ..read more

The Making Housing and Community Happen (MHCH) Podcast has launched, telling stories of social transformation and housing justice! You can listen to the first episode here. You can also search for "Making Housing and Community Happen" on your podcast app. You can visit the Making Housing and Community Happen website here ..read more

In this episode I revisit the text about Jesus' interaction with the centurion to focus more than I did in episode 16 on the "banquet" (NRSV) that Jesus refers to. What is this "banquet" of which Jesus speaks? How does it evolve in the writings of ancient Israel, and what form does it take in the Gospel of Matthew? Support the show ..read more

 Part 2 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 4-5. Two Marxist historical Jesus scholars talk about the Jesus movement's mission to the rich and whether the Jesus movement actually performed healings and exorcisms. Support the show ..read more

Part 1 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 1 - 3 Was the historical Jesus a revolutionary or a millenarian prophet? Is there a difference? Did he create a movement or emerge from one? What was his relationship to John the Baptist? Support the show ..read more

Some new research and connections in these two passages that occur together in Matthew 19:13-30. Support the show ..read more

Why does Matthew divide up the genealogy into 3 sets of 14 generations? What does this signify? Link to Dr. Timothy Lewis' podcast, Matthewlinity: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/matthewlinity/id1398795694 Support the show ..read more