Herb Montgomery | February 18, 2021 (To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here.) “The passage describes the reciprocal nature of judgment, of condemnation, of forgiveness, and of giving. Our choices show not only what kind…
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 | February 4, 2022 (To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here.) “Fishing for people was about hooking or catching a certain kind of person, a powerful and unjust person, and removing them from…
Herb Montgomery | January 28, 2022 “We can do better today. We don’t have to disparage Jewish people, Jewish wisdom, or Judaism to value Jesus and his ethical teachings. There is so much good in the Jesus story that…
Herb Montgomery | January 21, 2022 “There are so many contemporary parallels to draw between the way Luke’s gospel characterizes the life and mission of Jesus and the justice needs present in our world today. Since his era, oppression, domination…
Herb Montgomery | January 14, 2022 “Instead of arguing whether we should mandate vaccinations for the sake of the common good and for those who are vulnerable among us, as Jesus followers we already have a mandate in place: love…
Herb Montgomery | July 9, 2021 “Remember, there are consequences to speaking truth to those in positions of power. Those in power rarely responds well to having truth spoken to them . . . Perhaps the combination of sounding outrageous,…
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Herb Montgomery | March 26, 2021 The synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, offer consistent political comparisons between Jesus’ vision for human society (God’s just future) and the status quo of the society Jesus found himself in instead . .…
Herb Montgomery | December 11, 2020 “This Christmas story, far from being about how Jesus would make a way to the afterlife and leave the oppressive systems and structures of this world passively untouched, speaks to its audience of liberation…