Myth of Redemptive Suffering Archives

Participation Not Substitution

October 18, 2024
Herb Montgomery
Liberation Theology, Myth of Redemptive Suffering

We want to take this moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to all of our supporters for your invaluable role in the Renewed Heart Ministry community and for your dedication to our mission of fostering love, justice, compassion, and healing.…

Refusing to Passively Endure Injustice

September 13, 2024
Herb Montgomery
Esights, Liberation Theology, Myth of Redemptive Suffering

Thank You! We want to take this moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to all of our supporters for your invaluable role in the Renewed Heart Ministry community and for your dedication to our mission of fostering love, justice, compassion,…

Resurrection as Injustice Undone

April 12, 2024
Herb Montgomery
Esights, Liberation Theology, Myth of Redemptive Suffering

Now Available on Amazon! Finding Jesus: A Fundamentalist Preacher Discovers the Socio-Political & Economic Teachings of the Gospels. by Herb Montgomery Available now on Amazon! After two successful decades of preaching a gospel of love within the Christian faith…

The Good News Is About Life and Love, Not Death and Dying

Now Available on Amazon! Finding Jesus: A Fundamentalist Preacher Discovers the Socio-Political & Economic Teachings of the Gospels. by Herb Montgomery Available now on Amazon! After two successful decades of preaching a gospel of love within the Christian faith…

The Harmful Myth of Redemptive Death

Now Available on Amazon! Finding Jesus: A Fundamentalist Preacher Discovers the Socio-Political & Economic Teachings of the Gospels. by Herb Montgomery Available now on Amazon! After two successful decades of preaching a gospel of love within the Christian faith…

Bearing A Cross and the Myth of Redemptive Suffering

#1 New Release on Amazon! Finding Jesus: A Fundamentalist Preacher Discovers the Socio-Political & Economic Teachings of the Gospels.by Herb Montgomery Available now on Amazon. After two successful decades of preaching a gospel of love within the Christian faith tradition…

What Taking Up a Cross Doesn’t Mean

September 1, 2023
Herb Montgomery
Esights, Liberation Theology, Myth of Redemptive Suffering

Thank you to all of our supporters. If you would like to join them in supporting Renewed Heart Ministries' work you can do so by clicking "donate" above. New Episode of JustTalking!d Season 1, Episode 28: Matthew 16.21-28. Lectionary A,…

Resurrection as the Good News

This Week's Episode of Just Talking Available on YouTube New Episode of “Just Talking" Now Online! Season 1, Episode 10: Luke 24:13-35. Lectionary A, Easter 3 Each week, we’ll be talking about the gospel lectionary reading for the upcoming weekend.…

Sacrificing our Humanity to Change the World

February 24, 2023
Herb Montgomery
Ecological Justice, Economic Justice, Esights, Feminism, Liberation Theology, Myth of Redemptive Suffering, Womanism

These legends of Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness can still inform the lives of Jesus followers working to shape our world in more just and compassionate ways. We’ll need to interpret them differently than the original audience did, but we can still interpret them in life-giving ways for our society.

The Myth of Redemptive Suffering

"As Jesus followers, Jesus is our example. In his teachings of the Golden Rule and his life of love, Jesus’s life models a path for healing our world. And that’s why how we interpret Jesus’ death matters. If we interpret Jesus’ death as redemptive suffering, then his suffering becomes a life model for us even if it means we die in the process at the hands of our oppressors and abusers. It’s dangerous."