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Refusing to Be Silent About Injustice

June 23, 2023
Herb Montgomery
Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Esights, Liberation Theology

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Rewriting the Sermon on the Mount

All of this reveals the concerns and struggles of the Jesus community at this time. It reveals traits and practices they felt were intrinsically destructive. We have our own struggles to face today, personally and socially. The Sermon on the Mount was written to 1st Century Jesus-followers living in the wake of the temple’s destruction who were trying to find their new place in the world. If this sermon were to be rewritten today, what can you imagine it might include now?

Social Justice, Jesus and Hell

Herb Montgomery | September 24, 2021 “I want to be clear: I reject the common Evangelical doctrine of eternal torment, including a belief in a literal, eternally burning hell. If we take all the descriptions of a post-mortem ‘hell’ that…

Mislabelling Social Justice as Foolishness

July 17, 2020
Herb Montgomery
Economic Justice, Esights, Liberation Theology, Social Gospel

by Herb Montgomery | July 17, 2020 “I find it alarming that there are Christian pastors or leaders who call fellow Jesus followers seeking social justice ‘fools.’ It is past time for those who bear the name of Jesus to…

Not Fearing the Body’s Death

by Herb Montgomery Featured Text: “And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. But fear the one who is able to destroy both the soul and body in Gehenna.” (Q 12:4-5) Companion…