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…
Jesus and Another Story of Debt Cancellation
Herb Montgomery | September 16, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “Am I prioritizing relationships with people over and above the rules that capitalism continues to try to program us with as to…
A Preferential Option and Student Debt Forgiveness
Herb Montgomery | September 9, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “In a society that privileges certain ones from pushing others to the edges and undersides of their society, we have to practice…
Rejection For Doing What Is Right
Herb Montgomery | September 2, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “If your religion causes you to feel like you must reject your lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-binary, queer, or questioning kid,…
The Bodies We Inhabit
Herb Montgomery | August 26, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. I love the emphasis in the end of this passage. It’s not that “they” will be blessed. It’s that “you” will be…
Our Collective Thriving
Herb Montgomery | August 19, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. The stories this week point us to prioritizing the needs of people to thrive. Survival isn’t enough. We are worth more than…
The Personal Cost of Causing Division
Herb Montgomery | August 12, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “Our reading this week calls to mind times when we have also had to make decisions about speaking out against things we…
When Unity is Destructive
Herb Montgomery | May 27, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. "I don’t read this week’s reading as calling for this kind of unity. I don’t read this week’s passage as placing unity…
Social Advocacy
Herb Montgomery | May 20, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. “The facts are that the early Jesus community was comprised of those on the undersides and margins of their society who were…
Loving One Another and Justice
Herb Montgomery | May 13, 2022 To listen to this week's eSight as a podcast episode click here. "You can’t love another" without desiring that those whom you love have what they need to thrive, and also doing…