RHM Update: October 23, 2023

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Last Week’s Episode of Just Talking!

Season 1, Episode 35: Matthew 22:15-22. Lectionary A, Proper 24

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.

If you teach from the lectionary each week, or if you’re just looking for some thoughts on the Jesus story from a more progressive perspective within the context of social justice, check it out, you might like it.

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Season 1, Episode 35: Matthew 22:15-22. Lectionary A, Proper 24

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October’s Recommended Reading

We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign

Edited by Liz Theoharis

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible proclaims justice and abundance for the poor. Yet these powerful passages about poverty are frequently overlooked and misinterpreted.

Enter the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement against racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and religious nationalism. In We Cry Justice, Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the campaign, is joined by pastors, community organizers, scholars, low-wage workers, lay leaders, and people in poverty to interpret sacred stories about the poor seeking healing, equity, and freedom. In a world roiled by poverty and injustice, Scripture still speaks.

Organized into fifty-two chapters, each focusing on a key Scripture passage, We Cry Justice offers comfort and challenge from the many stories of the poor taking action together. Read anew the story of the exodus that frees people from debt and slavery, the prophets who denounce the rich and ruling classes, the stories of Jesus’s healing and parables about fair wages, and the early church’s sharing of goods. Reflection questions and a short prayer at the end of each chapter offer the opportunity to use the book devotionally through a year.

The Bible cries for justice, and we do too. It’s time to act on God’s persistent call to repair the breach and fight poverty, not the poor.

Last Week’s Social Jesus Posts

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

Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 1

Life-giving interpretations of this story depend on considering some historical context of the claims of Caesar on this coin.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/10/render-caesar-things-that-are-caesars-part1/

Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 2

These two claims were diametrically opposed to each other such that one could not honor one without violating the other.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/10/render-to-caesar-things-that-are-caesars-part2/

Render to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar’s Part 3

This means to know the difference between our obligations to Caesar and to understand our higher commitments to love, justice and compassion.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/10/render-to-caesar-things-caesars-part-3/

It’s Here!

Herb’s new book is now available through Renewed Heart Ministries.

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

Pages: 210
Price: $14.95

Get your copy today!

To purchase click here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

November 25, 2023

Good News Fellowship
(via Zoom)
Toronto, Ontario Canada
For info: 304.520.0030

Weekly Zoom HeartGroup on Wednesday Nights

Each Wednesday evening, Glendale City Church will be hosting a Zoom-HeartGroup led by Herb Montgomery. Our discussion each week will focus on the content in Renewed Heart Ministries’ weekly eSight articles and the Jesus For Everyone podcast published each Friday. The time of each Zoom session will be on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. Pacific/10:00 p.m. Eastern.

For more information and for the link to participate each week, contact RHM here.

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