by Herb Montgomery | November 29, 2021 (To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast, click here.) "As we enter this Advent season this weekend, we are called again to build a better world. Hope can give way…
November is A Shared Table 2021 month! Find out more here. (To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast, click here.) by Herb Montgomery | November 12, 2021 "Seen through this lens and given Jesus’ love for the poor…
November is A Shared Table 2021 month! Find out more here. Herb Montgomery | November 5, 2021 “This story does not praise the piety of the poor within a system that takes economic advantage of their piety. It condemns any…
Herb Montgomery | October 29, 2021 "The closest I will ever come to meeting God in this life is you . . . No one should be excluded from our core practice of loving our neighbor as ourself. We are,…
Herb Montgomery | October 22, 2021 “It’s not enough to remove the basis for people being treated as less-than. We must also challenge the very systems the create less-thans and greater-thans. Jesus didn’t just give Bartimaeus his sight. He continued…
Herb Montgomery | October 15, 2021 "These types of systems are to be eliminated, not reformed. We must not merely seek the lowest positions within hierarchical systems of domination and oppression, we are to reject those systems in their entirety.…
Herb Montgomery | October 8, 2021 “Christians have always come up with ways around stories like these in the gospels, but imagine with me this week, a community didn’t try to get around them. What if we allowed…
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…
Herb Montgomery | September 10, 2021 [To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast click Episode 388:Taking Up Our Crosses, Injustice, and Abuse] “Oppressors throughout history have used the concept of ‘taking up one’s cross’ to prioritize themselves over…
Herb Montgomery | September 3, 2021 [To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast click Episode 387: Openness to Change] "In our present system, those whose difference causes them to be seen or treated as less-than should be heard.…