Season 1, Episode 9: John 20:19-31. Lectionary A, Easter 2

Each week, we’ll be talking about the gospel lectionary reading for the upcoming weekend. We’ll be talking about each reading in the context of love, inclusion, and societal justice. Our hope is that our talking will be just talking (as in justice) and that during our brief conversations each week you’ll be inspired to also do more than just talking.

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April’s Recommended Reading

In Memory of Her: Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins

by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

More than ten years after it was first published, this book is as important and influential as when it first appeared. By way of celebration, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza has written a new introduction, surveying responses and developments over recent years and the issues which arise from them, and commenting on her own intentions. This gives added value to what is already a classic.

Last Week’s Social Jesus Posts

Articles posted each week at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/

Commission Stories, Part 1 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

Each of these commission stories are separate, each told for the distinct purposes of the communities they were written for.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/04/loose-bind-forgive-part1/

Loosing and Binding, Part 2 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

Both loosing and binding can be life-giving or death-dealing. We must practice informed wisdom that finds the most life-giving practice.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/04/loosing-binding-loose-bind-forgive-part2/

That Which is Life Giving, Part 3 of To Loose or Bind, To Forgive or not Forgive

This week’s reading is also a good reminder to choose that which is life giving because all theologies have a function.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/04/life-giving-loose-bind-forgive-part3/

It’s Here!

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Finding Jesus: A story of a Fundamentalist preacher who unexpectedly discovered the social, political, and economic teachings of the Gospels
by Herb Montgomery

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UPCOMING EVENTS

April 22, 2023
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(via Zoom)
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Weekly Zoom HeartGroup on Wednesday Nights

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