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The true seduction in the gospel
Reading the story of Salome is an opportunity for us to uncover the truth that we’d rather keep hidden: about power and control.
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Why is this a terrible decision?—for Proper 10B
It is easy for us to see what is terrible about Herod’s decision in the gospel this week. But we must focus on the implications of it all.
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Oath—the problem with promises
The commitments we make, to one another, to our families, to God, are all bound up in our character. Here’s how we get tangled up.
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Between Proper 9 + 10 (Year B)
As our focus shifts to John the Baptizer, let’s take a minute to put that shift into context, particularly with where Jesus is.
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What’s our work here?
In their desire to keep things as they are, the townspeople struggle with the opportunity Jesus offers them: to make a new normal.
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Home again?—for Proper 9B
Going home can be a kind of strained time travel. The past and present collide and people think we must always be the same. Always.
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Between Proper 8 + 9 (Year B)
As we prepare to focus on Jesus’s return home, we should keep in mind just how famous Jesus has already become and why.
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The transgressive in Jesus’s healing stories
In these two healing stories, Jesus offers information we’d rather skip over, providence we’d rather not have and cast only onto him.