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Write What You See: Standing In The Great Traditions of Resistance (Revelation 1)
I want to share the sermon I preached on April 15, 2023, for the American Friends Service Committee’s annual gathering in Philadelphia. Each year AFSC gathers for business, workshops, and community building. During this time, they have a programmed worship service as a part of their time together. This was the second time I was…
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Confronting Beastly Economics – An Anti-Imperial Look at Revelation 13
I have a chapter called “Beastly Economics” in the book, We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible With the Poor People’s Campaign. In the chapter, I discuss the concept of the “Mark of the Beast” not as some mark on a person or group in the future, but as a way of describing systems of economic oppression. Even better, Ebony…
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Learn as we Lead: Victims of Empire and The Great Multitude in Revelation 7
I was asked to share a little during the season of “Learn as We Lead,” for the Freedom Church of the Poor on the abuses and misuses of the Book of the Revelation. On Sunday I shared a little on Chapter 7 of Revelation (link to a live video of the worship service), drawing on…
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Continuing Revelation
Continuing Revelation is a phrase that has been popularized within the Quaker tradition. Here is how it is used and what makes it problematic. The key difference of continuing revelation and remix is in function. Continuing Revelation functions as a move of supplanting the past, another argument, or worldview. It functions within Quaker exceptionalism both…
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Hope in a time of Empire: The Lynching of Ahmaud Arbery & the Vision of Jesus in Revelation 1
This is a message I prepared for First Friends Meeting where my family and I attend. Rev. 1:12 Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man,…