HeyJaredSimon Cross’s Substack
Progressive Christianity by way of thoughtful reflections on the Bible, important issues, and every day life. Occasionally funny.
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Progressive reflections on the lectionary #132 (opens the original)
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This week I offer a completely overturned view of the parable of the ‘wicked tenants' - is it really the tenants who are wicked? Or is that a view handed on to us by people who preferred a Christological reading to a subversive political reading? I think you can guess which way I go on this. Oppression breeds violence in this story, and for those who accept the legitimacy of empire, anyone who fights back against the powers that be are ‘wretches’. But the intimate, relational, liberative God of
Humanity, humus & humility (opens the original)
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The Saturday column: Sillyness (opens the original)
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Progressive reflections on the lectionary #131 (opens the original)
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This week’s passage is about the kingdom of heaven again, and specifically who ‘gets into it’ first. Matthew says some controversial things before offering an abbreviated counterpoint to a very familiar story found in the Luke tradition. I say that this has to do with who perceives themself as standing to benefit from being part of ‘the beloved community’. God’s kingdom is attractive to the most vulnerable, precisely because of their vulnerability.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" hre
Cows in sackcloth and grumbling workers (opens the original)
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