https://jesusthieves.com Essays, liturgy, field notes and reviews. One dispatch each month — considered and unhurried. en-us © Stealing Jesus editors@jesusthieves.com (The Editors) editors@jesusthieves.com (The Editors) Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Stealing Jesus https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-001 Manifesto editors@jesusthieves.com (The Editors) Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 There is a quiet violence in claiming a name that was never ours to own — and yet, every generation reaches for him, bandaging him in their own colors. https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-002 Essay editors@jesusthieves.com (Editorial) Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Before the sermons, before the crowds — thirty years of sawdust and silence. A theology written in the grain of olive wood. https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-003 Liturgy editors@jesusthieves.com (Editorial) Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Communion is not a transaction. It is the long, patient breaking of something that does not wish to be broken. https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-004 Meditation editors@jesusthieves.com (Editorial) Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 On judgment, fruitlessness, and the strange mercy of being asked, again, to bear something true. https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-005 Dispatch editors@jesusthieves.com (The Editors) Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Notes on the merchants we still tolerate at the threshold of the holy. https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-006 Field Notes editors@jesusthieves.com (The Editors) Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 What pastors say when they think no one is recording. https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-007 Letter editors@jesusthieves.com (The Editors) Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 An attempt at honesty, unhurried, and without argument. https://jesusthieves.com/ stealing-jesus-008 Review editors@jesusthieves.com (The Editors) Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Costly grace in a country that has forgotten the word costly.