Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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The relationship between the pursuit of control in our lives is also the pursuit of power over others and our environment, even our faith.
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The Transfiguration is a big, bold event, full of bombast, but present are disciples who are confused and frustrated. Much like we are.
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The appearance and substance of Jesus is too often treated as separate, and relating to matter rather than our experience of him.
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In the command to love, we are invited into a relationship that is neither weak nor stuck, but full of fidelity and life-affirming grace.
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There is a certain depiction in US culture that the command to love is weak, but it is actually the primary building block of protest.
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In the sermon on the plain, Jesus outlines a relationship to the Kin-dom that is based, not on virtue, but on our relationship to others.