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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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A Different Iteration of our Present World

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A Unity That’s Big Enough

This Week's Episode of Just Talking Available on YouTube New Episode of “Just Talking" Now Online! Season 1, Episode 14: John 17.1-11. Lectionary A, Easter 7 Each week, we’ll be talking about the gospel lectionary reading for the upcoming weekend.…

Loving What Jesus Taught

This Week's Episode of Just Talking Available on YouTube New Episode of “Just Talking" Now Online! Season 1, Episode 13: John 14:15-21. Lectionary A, Easter 6 Each week, we’ll be talking about the gospel lectionary reading for the upcoming weekend.…

Jesus as Liberation from Systemic Injustice

"What difference does it make to see Jesus working in the spirit of Moses and Elijah rather than interpreting him as a replacement for Moses and Elijah?"

Safe-for-Everyone Interpretations and Practices

February 3, 2023
Herb Montgomery
Esights, Interfaith, Liberation Theology

“What does this mean for us? It means that we can do with the Jesus story today what those in the 1st Century were doing with the Torah. We can learn to interpret the Jesus story in life-giving ways, listening to the world around us and the harm previous interpretations have caused. We can think carefully, not just theologically but socially, politically, and economically . . . we can grapple with the ethics of the Jesus story in our cultural context today and find more life-giving ways of defining what it means to follow Jesus.”

A New Iteration of Our Present World

“Jesus’ words aren’t about leaving the status quo untouched and unchanged while we work on privatized, individual, spiritual virtues that give us a ticket to a postmortem heaven. These words are Jesus’ vision for a world here, now, today, where those presently being harmed are harmed no more.”

When Healing Justice Comes Near

Herb Montgomery | January 20, 2023 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “Today we still have social sicknesses that desperately need healing justice. I think of the sicknesses of patriarchy and misogyny, of racism…

Breaking With the Way Things Are

“That our participation in John’s baptism might symbolize that for us today gives me pause. Do I really want to break with the way things are? Do I really want change? How committed am I to that change? Am I committed enough to choose those differences in my daily life? All of this and more is on my heart as this new year begins. What changes will our choices and actions bring this new year?”

A Special Christmas Message

December 23, 2022
Herb Montgomery
Christmas, Esights

"This Christmas, let's celebrate in the form of a life lived every day in harmony with the belief that when it comes to those pushed to the undersides and edges of our society, this baby lying in a manger grows up to be an advocate for them."