The Deceitfulness of Wealth
Wealth creates in us a kind security that isolates us from fellow members of our human family. Community, on the other hand, is a way of finding security to weather potential future hardships together.
Faith and Political Harm
Herb Montgomery | September 30, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “The Jesus of the gospels cared about the concrete harm being done to the marginalized and exploited. And our faith in this…
Stories that Shape Us
Herb Montgomery | September 23, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “This story might have spoken to those in Luke’s culture, but it would not work to threaten people in our culture with…
Getting Free from Fear and Facing the Future Together
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…
God or Money
"Jesus’s ethic is not capitalist. In a capitalist system, the goal is simply to create capital. The game is won by those who are able to create the most capital and use it to create more . . . Jesus…
For and Against John
“For John came to you. The tax collectors responded positively, but the religious authorities rejected him.” (Q 7:29-30) Companion Texts: Luke 7:29-30: “(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right,…
Houses Built on Rock or Sand
BY HERB MONTGOMERY “Everyone hearing my words and acting on them is like a person who built one’s house on bedrock; and the rain poured down and the flash-floods came, and the winds blew and pounded that house, and it…
A New Liberator (Part 2 of 3)
The Subversive Narratives of Advent (Part 2 of 3) BY HERB MONTGOMERY “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” (Matthew 2:2) Our…
Jesus’ Vision for Community, Wealth Redistribution, and Closing the Inequality Gap
By Herb Montgomery Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” (Mark 10:23) First, I didn’t say the above statement! So don’t be upset with me. But…
The Last Shall Be the Same as the First and the First the Same as the Last
BY HERB MONTGOMERY “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last…