Finding Refuge in God’s New Earth
Today we are facing an unprecedented assault on both the world’s poor and the natural world. Marginalized people and wildlife all need refuge or the planet’s most vulnerable and beautiful life will...
View ArticleJesus’ Surprising Offer of Living Cocaine
Contextual encounters at the well with Latino inmates in US jails Intercultural reading of the Bible demonstrates that reading strategies and interpretations vary widely and are relevant to reading...
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Berries, Farmers, and Workers: Endangered Species
Thousands of migrant farm workers have moved into Skagit County’s ten labor camps this summer with hopes of plentiful work harvesting strawberries and other local crops. Many have found work. At the...
View ArticleAgainst the Laws: Incarceration as Reevaluation of the Natural World
Chris Hoke, Assistant Jail Chaplain During the months Daniel was in Skagit County Jail, he dreamt of oceans and oceans. He would be swimming, he tells me, with whales and his family. Daniel has never...
View ArticleFrom Intimacy to Revolution: Receiving the Full Prophetic Experience in the...
“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear...
View ArticleHolistic Transformational Ministry at the Margins
For over 28 years I have pursued a Gospel with power to change lives and mobilize people as agents of transformation. I long to see transformation from below as the Good News of Jesus Christ impacts...
View ArticleA Transforming Otherness
For over 28 years I have pursued a Gospel that has potency to change lives and mobilize people as agents of transformation. I long to see transformation from below, and regularly anticipate seeing this...
View ArticleProphesy and Reconciliation
I am amazed by how the Holy Spirit is at work actualizing Jesus’ work of breaking down the “barrier of the dividing wall” (Eph 1:14) through the gift of prophesy. Prophetic words bridge divides between...
View ArticleJesus’ Subversive Victory Shouts in Matthew 27: Towards an Empowering...
I exercise my ministry as executive director of Tierra Nueva in part through my role as chaplain to inmates in a county jail and pastor to immigrants, many of whom are undocumented. I also lead...
View ArticleThe Word of God … Through the Toilet Bowl
I serve as part-time chaplain to people who are in jail. Twice a week I make my way through five thick steel doors into the dreary center of Skagit County’s high security facility. Guards let men who...
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