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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.
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Two Healing Stories—for Proper 8B
This week’s gospel invites us to see two healing stories. If we take them together, what might we find? Not just healing, believing?
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Between Proper 7 + 8 (Year B)
The gap in this week’s lectionary tells the story of the healing of the Demoniac. But that isn’t the part that astounds us.
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When we think we’re all going to die
Why is the anxiety of the disciples more relatable than the calmness of Jesus? And why doesn’t it seem to bother us more than it does?
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Between Proper 6 + 7 (Year B)
Preparing for the next part of the lectionary, let’s double up on the backstory. So we can be less surprised than the disciples are.
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Insulting and Believing
The readings for Proper 6B again connect the trouble with kings with the matters of belief. It is an opportunity to see possibilities.