Lindsey Paris-Lopez delves into how Abram's blessing from God began with the subversion of scapegoating and rivalry.

The destruction of the Tower of Babel was not an act of rivalry by God, but a scattering from ritual sacrifice explains Lindsey Paris-Lopez.

God's destruction of the world by flood is not a tale of God's vengeance explains Lindsey Paris-Lopez, but a flood of human violence.

In Genesis 3 and 4, the world created as good experiences blame, jealousy, and murder, "Oh, my!" Lindsey Paris-Lopez exclaims then explains.

In her reading of Genesis 2, Lindsey Paris-Lopez explores humanity's role in creation through the perspective of help, not hierarchy.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez starts her series Healing Stories of the Bible in the beginning, in Genesis where God's creation is all good.

Adam Ericksen and Lindsey Paris-Lopez celebrate the hope offered to the world by the birth of a vulnerable baby in a manger to an unwed teen.

Adam Ericksen and Lindsey Paris-Lopez explain Matthew's genealogy of Jesus does not gloss over the injustices committed by his ancestors.

Adam Ericksen and Lindsey Paris-Lopez celebrate the courage of Mary expressed in The Magnificat and invite everyone to carry God within us.

Adam Ericksen and Lindsey Paris-Lopez examine Jesus' response to the death of Lazarus and the miracle of his resurrection.

Lindsey Paris-Lope illustrates how Jesus interprets the scriptures through the way of love and mercy, not sacrifice.

Adam Ericksen and Lindsey Paris-Lopez admire the faith of Bartimaeus and the compassion in Jesus' healing act.

Adam Ericksen and Lindsey Paris-Lopez join James and John in pondering what are we getting ourselves into when we follow Jesus.

Adam Ericksen leads the conversation imagining all the people sharing all the world with love and compassion as Jesus showed us.

Adam and Lindsey examine the faith of a child which includes curiosity, wonder, and questions about everything, including divorce.

Adam and Lindsey find comfort in Jesus stating those who are not against us are for us, but then wrestle with the imagery of severed limbs.

Adam and Lindsey describe how Jesus’s glory comes not through self-aggrandizement, but through complete self-giving, servant leadership.

Adam and Lindsey explain Jesus is subverting the most common human ideas of how to bring about peace and justice in a violent world.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez brings her experience of converting to Islam then returning to Christianity to guide us in unlearning Islamophobia.

The unwashed hands of the disciples cause debate. Adam and Lindsey ponder is filthiness next to godliness?

In this episode of Jesus Unmasked, Lindsey Paris-Lopez and Adam Ericksen reflect on Jesus saying "eat of my flesh and drink of my blood''.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez and Adam Ericksen embrace Jesus' giving more bread, more life but without exclusive interpretations.

In this episode of Jesus Unmasked, Lindsey Paris-Lopez and Adam Ericksen celebrate the Bread of Life as the love of the forgiving victim.

In this episode of Jesus Unmasked, Lindsey Paris-Lopez and Adam Ericksen reflect on Jesus saying "eat of my flesh and drink of my blood''.

In this episode, Lindsey Paris-Lopez and Adam Ericksen explore what is salvation and what's up with the Trinity?

On Pentecost, Lindsey Paris-Lopez and Adam Ericksen celebrate fire and judgment in a good way, the way of redemptive love.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez reveals how her father's lack of belief in God through struggle, doubt, and anxiety, ultimately deepened and strengthened hers.

In the world, but not of it leaves many wondering what does that mean? Adam and Lindsey offer their understanding.

Forget the word command when Jesus tells us to love one another say Adam and Lindsey. Understand Jesus empowers us to love.

Adam and Lindsey believe we must bring a new understanding of shepherding and policing to begin the transforming of injustice and racism.

On Easter evening, when Jesus breaks in to the room where the disciples gather in fear, he offers them peace and forgiveness, then eats fish.

Adam and Lindsey appreciate the scientific mind of trust-but-verify Thomas. Jesus' reaction reveals the power of forgiveness.

Adam and Lindsey view the intersection of Transgender Day of Visibility and Holy Week as celebration of Jesus, our Mother.

Inspired by Lady Gaga's speech at the Beloved Community Awards 2021, Lindsey Paris-Lopez provides five steps for unlearning white supremacy.

Jesus glorified his Father by suffering a brutal crucifixion. Adam and Lindsey agree this is when God's glory really sucks.

Adam and Lindsey explain why the statement "for God so love the world", which some use to exclude, is good truly news for everyone.

When Jesus created a whip and drove sheep and cattle out of the Temple, he was overturning a sacrificial system and providing kickass mercy.

Adam and Lindsey confront two harsh sayings of Jesus, realizing the message is to live in such a way as to piss off the Powers that be.

As Lent begins, Adam and Lindsey follow Jesus into the wilderness where his experiences of temptation shape our good news. It's Lent!

Transfiguration Sunday shows Adam and Lindsey how Jesus lights the way through the darkness of the Lenten journey to love.

Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law. She immediately begins to serve them. In that generous act, Adam and Lindsey understand she is a disciple.

The authority of Jesus that startles the scribes is the badass authority of knowing you are loved explain Adam and Lindsey.

When Jesus called the disciples, they left everything old behind to start anew. No longer fishermen, they were to become fishers of people.

The savior, the one who will lead us all into a new life, comes from the margins and gathers unlikely followers to the call of discipleship.

Baptism is the immersion into a new life of Love. Love is the ever-flowing water that quickens new life out of the ashes of destruction.

The wonder of God, the Love that transforms the world, banishes all the fear. In the bleak darkness, the light breaks forth. Merry Christmas!

Mary's song, the Magnificat, expresses her courageous love while being deeply personal, deeply political, and also universal and holy.

Adam and Lindsey reflect on John the Baptist’s call to prepare the way for Jesus who comes to heal where we are most broken.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez examines the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in the musical "Hamilton" then offers a way to coexist, and even thrive, with our rivals.

Adam and Lindsey view the intersection of Transgender Day of Visibility and Holy Week as celebration of Jesus, our Mother.

As we look forward to the future with hope, Lindsey Paris-Lopez outlines three guiding principles to create lasting, impactful change for the better.

Adam and Lindsey discuss the perplexing parable of the foolish bridesmaids and recommend everyone to share your oil!

From the archives: Lindsey Paris-Lopez takes us to the Sermon on the Mount for a message of hope that is more timely and relevant than ever.

Adam and Lindsey explore the radical call to action in the Beatitudes. Because it's all about the Beatitudes, Baby!!

The Pope appeals to the Church to support same-sex unions. Adam and Lindsey say this appeals to the greatest authority, Love.

Pharisees set a trap for Jesus by asking about paying taxes. Jesus tells them to give to empire what belongs to it and to God what is God's.

When pondering how the parables of Jesus can guide us in these disconcerting times, Lindsey Paris-Lopez discovers a new call to hope and determined action.

Matthew 22: 1 - 14 relates a parable of a king who held a wedding feast. Adam and Lindsey ask who's getting kicked out of the wedding banquet.

Adam and Lindsey and friends talk about what authority is and why prostitutes and tax collectors are first in the Kingdom of God!

In the parable of the wicked tenants, Adam and Lindsey warn against its anti-Semitic readings then reveal the presence of the merciful God.

America's response to September 11, 2001 was scapegoating and violence. Lindsey Paris-Lopez explains how these tools will never bring lasting peace using the Bible story of Jonah and the Whale.

The theological and practical case for prison reform and restorative justice is grounded in the truth revealed by Jesus. He demonstrated how punitive and sacrificial systems reinforce rather than quell violence explains Lindsey Paris-Lopez.

In unprecedented times, the Islamic holiday Eid Al Adha (also called the "Festival of the Sacrifice") can't be celebrated according to tradition. Lindsey Paris-Lopez ponders on sacrifice, community, and calls for empathy as we all embark on a pilgrimage to find compassion within ourselves.

Adam and Lindsey follow Jesus grieving the death of John the Baptist to a deserted place where he feeds throngs from emptiness to abundance.

Asking, "How would Jesus police?," Lindsey Paris-Lopez reframes our understanding of service and protection through the lens of mercy, not sacrifice.

Adam and Lindsey dive deep into the weeds and the wheat to discover what Jesus is doing instead of weeding out the evil ones.

Adam and Lindsey read the parable of the sower through a lens of humility and love because the sower sows love.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez draws on parallels between the biblical story of Jacob in the Jabbok and her own personal faith journey, illuminating three insights about the nature of internal conflict.

Jesus says the wisdom of God has been revealed to infants. Adam and Lindsey explore what this means for us today.

Adam and Lindsey reveal as more and more people stand with the prophets, the prophet’s reward becomes hope. and ultimately, justice.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez draws on Martin Luther King Jr.'s triple evils – racism, militarism, and materialism – as the three pillars of American exceptionalism then offers ways to transform them.

Adam and Lindsey seek to de-weaponize but not disempower these bold words of Jesus then ask why Jesus is sending us into hell.

Lindsey and Adam discuss Matthew 9:35-10:8, shining the light of God’s expanding, all-inclusive love and showing Cananean lives matter.

“Jesus Unmasked” seeks to remove the masks of exclusive theology and violent cultural lenses that obscure the truth of Jesus’s unconditional love.

The Trinity is the Love-dance of God, ever-flowing in relationship. And the nature of God’s relationship is a dance of harmony.

Adam and Lindsey rejoice in the truth of Pentecost - that God’s universal love unites us and brings us into our fullest selves.

Lindsey Paris-Lopez explores mimetic doubling in three works of popular fiction: Star Wars, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter.

Love is demonstrated in the apostles' relationship with Jesus, and that relationship is eternal life explain Adam and Lindsey.

Jesus, our first Advocate, defender of victims and the accused sends to the world the Spirit of Truth state Adam and Lindsey.

The most misused verse in Scripture, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” is inclusive explain Adam and Lindsey.

When Jesus says, “I am the sheep gate,” he is saying he is the way for the vulnerable and marginalized explain Adam and Lindsey.

The Road to Emmaus in Luke is one of the most underrated stories in all of scripture since it begins in confusion and ends in understanding.

With the words, “Receive the Holy Spirit”, Jesus breathes new life into his disciples, offering a spirit of trust and forgiveness.

Celebrating Easter in a time that is very different than anything we could have anticipated, Lindsey Paris-Lopez unearths beautiful messages of love, vulnerability, and connection.

Adam and Lindsey discuss “Do not hold onto me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father,” for we do not rise until we all rise together.

Lindsey and Adam concentrate on one section from each chapter of the Good Friday readings - Peter's betrayal and Jesus' words from the cross.

Lindsey and Adam explain how Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday subverts all understanding of what it means to be a king.

Lindsey and Adam look closely at the story of Lazarus, seeing patterns of accusation and a world caught up in violence.

Lindsey and Adam explore the victim-blaming mentality that views misfortune and terrible circumstances as punishment for sin.

In an imaginary interview with the main characters of "Good Omens", Lindsey Paris-Lopez discusses love, doubt, and saving the world from certainty.

Lindsey and Adam explore the victim-blaming mentality that views misfortune and terrible circumstances as punishment for sin.

Adam and Lindsey explore the meaning of John 3:16, asking what are we saved from and what does it mean to be called to believe in Jesus.

Lindsey and Adam explore each Jesus' temptations and also seek to understand why Jesus goes to be tempted in the first place.

Adam convinces Lindsey to celebrate as we enter the season of Lent together! Happy Ash Wednesday, let's celebrate.

In a world that can be so quick to "cancel," Lindsey Paris-Lopez poses four ways we can have compassionate accountability.

Adam and Lindsey explain how the transfiguration is the story of the transformation of our understanding of God.

Adam and Lindsey describe how the verses Matt 5:21-37 are very subversive, challenging our sensibilities about God, humanity, and morality.

Adam and Lindsey detail how Jesus is critiquing a method of interpretation and exposing its consequences, not condemning a group of people.

Adam and Lindsey discuss all of the beatitudes, the ones they find inspiring and the ones they find difficult.