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Good — the perpetual challenge of our darkest day
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2 min read
I always struggled with the name “Good Friday”. But it isn’t a question of whether it is accurate so much as what we think is being called good.
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New Life and a Refusal to Die
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9 min read
Christians often struggle with what is required for new life: that we accept that death has a part to play. We’d rather think the point is to live forever.
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Unbind Him and Let Him Go — for Lent 5A
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3 min read
In the raising of Lazarus, Jesus defies the expectations of him and opens the people to see the situation in a completely new way.
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Unbinding — letting go of hangups and living
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1 min read
After Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, he says to the people there a line full of meaning: “unbind him and let him go.” He was physical bound to their rituals of death, so in a very real sense, he needed to be removed from all of that to return to the land of the…
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A New Opportunity to Live With Grace
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7 min read
The encounter of the sighted man born blind with the Pharisees reminds us that the grace of God is something radically transcendent.
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Trust in What You Can’t See — for Lent 4A
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2 min read
For this week’s reflection on the gospel, we must engage the physical and metaphorical meanings of seeing: and what it means to do both.
Make a New Normal
