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Social Ethicist

Andrew is a teacher and writer committed to justice, decency, and community.

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Poems, blogs, homilies, talks, musings

On Jesus’s Brothers and Christian Sex Troubles
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On Jesus’s Brothers and Christian Sex Troubles

“Who are my mother and brothers?” is a jumping-off point for a discussion of parthenogenesis, Augustine’s sexual hangups, misogyny in Christian theology, and sexual violence in churches today.

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The Son/Sophia Gender Binary and SB 150
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The Son/Sophia Gender Binary and SB 150

Matthew ch. 11 seems obviously patriarchal, but as usual, when we push the gender binary, it begins to leak. What are the implications for contemporary political and theological conversations?

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Dwellings
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Dwellings

A poem I wrote in response to a pilgrimage to the Oxmoor plantation in September. Written in memory of my dear friend and mentor, the late Fred Smock.

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Against Purity, Towards Doing Your Best
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Against Purity, Towards Doing Your Best

In the Good Samaritan parable Jesus amplifies the Jewish prophetic tradition, stressing that ethical responsibility trumps ritual purity. It’s a shame Christians haven’t been paying attention.

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An Obligation to Dissent: Responding to the CDF’s Statement
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An Obligation to Dissent: Responding to the CDF’s Statement

The recent statement from the CDF that the Vatican cannot perform same-sex blessings because God does not “bless sin” is not only based on a misappropriation of Natural Law, but also stands in tension with a central claim in Lumen Gentium.

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Advent and Apocalypse
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Advent and Apocalypse

What do we do with the possibility that Jesus was a prophet of an apocalypse that never came?

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A Palm Sunday Reflection on Jonathan Daniels, Ruby Sales, & Jesus
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A Palm Sunday Reflection on Jonathan Daniels, Ruby Sales, & Jesus

I do not think Jonathan Daniels was a hero because of the suffering he endured or the sacrifice he made. Instead, I look to him because as a white man in America I need models like that to teach me that in the midst of overwhelming brutality, it is possible not to sink into cynicism, because we are not in the end absolutely alone.

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NO SHELTER
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NO SHELTER

A poem after Emilie Townes based on a true story of an experience shared with her, Laurel Schneider, Aunt Helen, and Winnie.

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