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On the challenge (and hope) in following Jesus
It isn’t easy to follow Jesus. He pushes his followers away when they are focused on their own stuff. How do we embrace the challenge?
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Between Proper 15 + 16 (Year B)
The ongoing themes in John 6 are easy to miss when we focus on the image Jesus offers of the bread of life. Here’s what we might miss.
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Unlocking the bigger picture
There’s a paradox in understanding other people—to being open to hear them and in their words not telling the whole story to us.
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On Literal and Metaphorical—for Proper 15B
This week’s gospel reflection is about how we take the meaning of an image, its linguistic challenge, and what we need to focus on.
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The game of not getting it
With following Jesus, the point is not to understand or to win, but to understand Jesus. To get what he is about and wants for us.
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Making him king—for Proper 12B
In this week’s reflection, we respond to the people’s reaction to a Jesus miracle: that they want to make Jesus a king by force.
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Feeding—meeting the needs of multitudes
Our own experience of the miracle feeding of the multitudes is often plagued by the skepticism that creates the need for it.
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Between Proper 11 + 12 (Year B)
Our gospel this week switches over to John 6, which tells the story we skipped in Mark 6. It’s just that this version is a little different.