“Jesus was preaching to people who were in the middle of the worst farming and fishing crisis yet.”
Season after Pentecost | 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Genesis 25:19-34; Psalm 119:105-112; (Isaiah 55:10-13; Psalm 65:[1-8], 9-13;) Romans 8:1-11; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
This passage from Paul is one that has been used to inflict pain upon LGBTQ people.
What if all the energy we spent on taming the flesh were channeled toward loving the world?
What if we treated all of creation—plants and stars, soil and rivers—as our kin?
Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.
Enemies are real. They are also closer to us than we may care to imagine.