Advent and the Arrival of a Safer World for Everyone
Herb Montgomery | December 16, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “Can the ethics in the Jesus story, ethics such as the Golden Rule, neighborly love, solidarity with the marginalized, economic justice for…
The Love and Justice of Advent
Herb Montgomery | December 9, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “Today, we must let the kernel of concern for some people's material needs found in the Hebrew prophets and the gospels evolve…
Advent and Coming Justice
Herb Montgomery | December 2, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “In this just future that we are working for now, may all things death-dealing be burned up like chaff with fire that…
The Beginning of Advent
Herb Montgomery | November 25, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “We can desire a future characterized not by some being left and many being destroyed but by change and reclaiming the humanity…
Christmas Means Centering the Voices of Women
Herb Montgomery | December 24, 2021 “We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her story, even if it seems “impossible” to patriarchal men . . . If we are to take these Christmas…
The Feminist Liberation of Advent
End of Year Matching Donations! 2021 has been a year of big challenges. Doing ministry during an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought its share of change along with moments of heartwarming providence and blessings. As this year is coming to…
Advent as Too Political
End of Year Matching Donations! 2021 has been a year of big challenges. Doing ministry during an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought its share of change along with moments of heartwarming providence and blessings. As this year is coming to…
Advent, Hope, and Living on the Margins
[To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast click here.] Herb Montgomery | December 3, 2021 "The gospel message here, and one of my favorite Advent themes, is that salvation, change, and liberation don’t come from the center of…
Advent and a Different Iteration of Our World
by Herb Montgomery | November 29, 2021 (To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast, click here.) "As we enter this Advent season this weekend, we are called again to build a better world. Hope can give way…
