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 message John the Baptist offers is compelling and liberating—but it is frightening to the rich and powerful because they have more to lose.
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The words repentance and change are treated like concepts to hate or disparage rather than essential, beautiful, and hopeful.
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Approaching a second gospel passage about John the Baptist, hold onto the context and what it reveals about his message.
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When John the Baptist appears in this week’s gospel, he comes with an overtly political message—one that we can’t really avoid.
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The voice of revolution, offered by John the Baptist, reminds us not just in the singularity of his voice, but of the need for us to change.
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As we move into Advent 2, our focus shifts to John the Baptist, which puts us into the strange place of skipping ahead a bit.