Herb Montgomery | March 4, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “In the wilderness story, Jesus rejects the temptation to sacrifice himself and tempt God to save him in the end. This calls…
Herb Montgomery | February 25, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “In this story, the early Jesus followers are trying earnestly to make sense of Jesus’ execution at the hands of the Roman…
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 | January 7, 2021 “Jesus’ baptism has been understood in terms of a salvation that addresses only individuals’ personal or private sins rather than establishing systemic justice in place of systems that harm vulnerable and marginalized people. This…
Herb Montgomery | December 24, 2021 “We, too, can choose to listen when a woman has the courage to tell her story, even if it seems “impossible” to patriarchal men . . . If we are to take these Christmas…