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Last Week at RHM: December 1, 2025
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“Theology ceases to be a theology of the gospel when it fails to arise out of the community of the oppressed.”
James H. Cone
A Black Theology of Liberation
The Liberation at the Heart of Advent
Matthew 24:36-44
“Advent reminds us Jesus proclaimed liberation for the oppressed and the beginning of a whole new world where injustice, violence and oppression are replaced by loving one’s neighbor as oneself.”
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New Episode
A podcast where we talk about the intersection of faith and social justice.
Season 2 Episode 48: The Liberation at the Heart of Advent
Matthew 24:36-44
Available on all major podcast carriers and at:
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RHM’s Recommended Reading for November
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns
How much money is too much?
renewedheartministries.com/news/Recomme...
The Liberation at the Heart of Advent
Part 2 of the series The Liberation at the Heart of Advent
Advent calls us to participate in the beginning of a whole new world where injustice gives way to loving one’s neighbor.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
Advent as Ritual Reminder
Part 2 of the series The Liberation at the Heart of Advent
Advent reminds us that if we don’t share the social location of the marginalized, we’re called to live in year-round solidarity with them.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
Advent and Reclaiming Our Humanity
Part 1 of the series The Liberation at the Heart of Advent
This Advent passage concerns transitioning away from a world imagined as a predatory beast to one where our humanity has been reclaimed.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
Last Week at RHM: November 24, 2025
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“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”
Audre Lorde
A Political Execution: Beyond Atoning Sacrifice
Luke 23:33-43
“Revisiting Calvary as political execution leads us to a place where Jesus’ life and teachings call us to participate in resistance to unjust systems that weaponize and wield death today.”
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New Episode of The Social Jesus Podcast
A podcast where we talk about the intersection of faith and social justice.
This week:
Season 2 Episode 47: A Political Execution: Beyond Atoning Sacrifice
Luke 23:33-43
the-social-jesus-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/a-p...
RHM’s Recommended Reading for November
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns
How much money is too much?
renewedheartministries.com/news/Recomme...
Resurrection and Justice Work Today
Part 3 of the series A Political Execution: Beyond Atoning Sacrifice
Death, even just one more death, doesn't overcome death. Resurrection nonviolently triumphs over violence and injustice.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
Crucifixion: A Historical Alternative to Substitution
Part 2 of the series A Political Execution: Beyond Atoning Sacrifice
Crucifixion was reserved enemies of the state or those who threatened imperial order, not ordinary lawbreakers.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
Calvary as Political Execution
Part 1 of the series A Political Execution: Beyond Atoning Sacrifice
Political execution pivots us from a transaction in cosmic accounting far away to our own confrontation with systemic injustice here and now.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
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“Caring for the poor is inseparable from caring for the environment. Those living in poverty bear a far greater share of the consequences of environmental harm. Environmental justice and economic justice cannot be separated—they rise and fall together.”
A World that is Just, Safe, and Compassionate for All
Luke 21:5-19
“Our present crises of growing inequality and the coming environmental collapse are both intrinsic symptoms of how we are choosing to shape our economic system.”
renewedheartministries.com/Esights/11-1...
A podcast where we talk about the intersection of faith and social justice.
Season 2 Episode 46: A World that is Just, Safe, and Compassionate for All
Luke 21:5-19
Available on all major podcast carriers and at:
the-social-jesus-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/a-w...
RHM’s Recommended Reading for November
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns
How much money is too much?
renewedheartministries.com/news/Recomme...
One Stone Not Left Upon Another of our Growing Disparity
Part 3 of the series A World that is Just, Safe, and Compassionate for All
Similar to the 1st Century, change requires a profound shift away from a system of growing disparity toward collective flourishing.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
The Widening Gap: Can Equity Outpace Inequality?
Part 2 of the series A World that is Just, Safe, and Compassionate for All
The widening gap in our one-sided system grows wealth exponentially for a few, divorced from real economic welfare for the wider population.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
The Unsustainability of Injustice
Part 1 of A World that is Just, Safe, and Compassionate for All
The unsustanability of their economic system had reached a breaking point where the masses could not be squeezed any further.
www.patheos.com/blogs/social...
Last Week at RHM: November 10, 2025
Last Week at RHM, November Recommended Reading, Last week’s Social Jesus Blog posts, Upcoming Events and more . . .
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“We belong to a mutually beneficial web of connection, well-being, and love. At the root of this connection is empathy...”
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Fierce Love
A Gospel About the Living Rather than the Dead
Luke 20:27-38
“The response that God is the God of the living and not the dead calls us to focus on the life in front of us rather than on endless metaphysical debates about an afterlife.”
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