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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…
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…
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…
Herb Montgomery | April 5, 2019 Photo by Melany Rochester on Unsplash “Where else do you see institutions threatened by the voice of prophets? We may not call them prophets in every institution, yet the punishment of prophets is a universal dynamic. Whenever…
by Herb Montgomery Interpretations are not eternal. They change with time. As we see the harmful fruit of present interpretations, we can make those interpretations give way to new ones, in the hope that new interpretations will bear the fruit…
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 Karen Baker-Fletcher writes: “If Jesus is on the side of the least of these, as Matthew 25 suggests and womanist liberation theologians emphasize, then this includes the earth. It too is hungry for nourishment. It too is…
Jesus' non-exclusive, non-homogenous, non-kyriachical, shared table. BY HERB MONTGOMERY Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5) As we look at the “blessings” of Matthew 5 this week, know that they do not say that any state…
Part 7 of 9 by Herb Montgomery I Am Thirsty Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” (John 19.28) As we continue in John’s telling of the…