Herb Montgomery | March 25, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “This week’s parable calls us to question whom we are excluding and the basis for our exclusion. And it’s calling us to…
Herb Montgomery | February 11, 2022 (To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here.) “But things never remain as they are. Change is the nature of reality. We can choose to bend the arc of the…
Herb Montgomery | June 25, 2021 “This is what liberation theologians refer to as a preferential option. The word preferential means a preference or partiality and implies favor or privilege. The word option does not mean that the preference is…
Herb Montgomery | December 4, 2020 Mark’s Jesus narrative offers a Jesus who has come not to destroy us or who we are but to liberate us from the self-hatred and the internalized low self-estimation our communities of origin have…
Herb Montgomery | November 15, 2019 “One thread in Jewish tradition enlarged this hope and applied it not only to the Jewish people, but also to the rest of humanity with a much more universal end to all oppression, violence,…
by Herb Montgomery | November 8, 2019 “What is our relation, as followers of Jesus, to the marginalized of our day? To what degree are we marginalized in our own lives? Are we standing in solidarity with others who are…
Herb Montgomery | June 21, 2019 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash It’s not enough to simply offer a gospel that only offers divine forgiveness of sins. A gospel that is faithful to the Jesus story must include people forgiving…
by Herb Montgomery "We don’t have to reject members of our own family. Rather, this week’s saying tells us that when we do take a stand for justice, we may be rejected by mother, father, daughter, son, brother, or sister,…
by Herb Montgomery "When you see who is welcomed and affirmed, when you see how wrong you were about those you thought should be forbidden from sitting at the table with you, it’s going to make you so angry!" Featured…