Archive - The Leavings

A Sermon for When the US Bombed Iran

Pacifism in a time of war

Jun 25 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

May 2025

Policing is a gun

Why diffusing the definition of the police harms our hope for something better

May 26 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

April 2025

Empty tomb, absent Christ, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Painting by Salvadoran folks artist, Fernand Llort

Apr 19 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

empathy's fantasies

Politics after subject/object

Apr 1 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

January 2025

Anabaptist Trumpism

The authors of "Why many of us voted for Trump" wanted understanding. I got something else.

Jan 29 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

For the unity and healing of the nation

When we fight together - we win

Jan 18 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

November 2024

More materialist hope, less cheap religiosity

“People have to have hope that their lives can be different.

Nov 20, 2024 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

Learning from the failed Confessing Churches

Two days before this week’s catastrophic election, I was asked to do a Q&A with a church that utilized my book as the basis of a sermon series on Jesus…

Nov 8, 2024 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

September 2024

Mercy Oduyuye and the expansiveness of African theology

I’ve been thinking about Mercy Amba Oduyuye this week, returning to her work and recalling the legacy she left in theology and in the lives of all…

Sep 17, 2024 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

August 2024

Voting for more tools in my toolbox

We’re in a political season where we’re once again being asked to choose between Trump and a fresher-faced Democratic presidential administration.

Aug 21, 2024 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

July 2024

David, gender trouble, and being unserious

A sermon on 2 Samuel 6:14-24

Jul 23, 2024 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

the politics of feeling bad and getting better, and how to tell the difference

Jul 15, 2024 •

Melissa Florer-Bixler

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