Drew Downs – Drew Downs

How our limited imagination gets stuck on taxes

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5 min read

When asked about the Law and paying taxes, Jesus gives a response many are far too eager to see as supporting separation.

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3 min read

In our reflection for this Sunday, we examine what it is we want this gospel to do and why. And why this misses Jesus’s mark for us.

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1 min read

In asking Jesus about taxes, and whether it is right under the Law of Moses to pay them, we might miss what is really being asked here.

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2 min read

The passage we are moving into is so often taken for a story of binaries, separation, and articulation, but the question is filled with dishonesty.

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9 min read

The dark parable Jesus tells challenges us, not to learn what to do, but to recall and do what we’ve already learned from him.

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4 min read

War messes with our moral compass. But it is the sense of inevitability that does far more damage. Our work is to enforce those boundaries.