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Continue reading →: Thanksgiving Rethought
Almost everything I learned in school about Thanksgiving was wrong. Or at best incomplete, or skewed to endorse colonialism and diminish the history of the native community. In all fairness to my schools, I took the bare minimum of required history classes and perhaps I’m not remembering all that I…
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Continue reading →: Talents and the Kingdom Economy
Parables are meant to provoke discussion, to be perplexing, to stir up questions and ideas. This week’s parable, the Parable of the Talents (Matt 25:14-30) hits all the marks. As we start, remember the parable’s location in the gospel of Matthew. It is still the week between when Jesus enters…
