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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In skipping over the third Passion prediction, the lectionary doesn’t help us connect the dots to the nature of the disciples’ error.
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When we talk about the problem with money, we need to dig into why we can’t trust in money to solve all of our problems now.
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The challenge of Jesus’s teaching with the pious young man is that Jesus condemns wealth in a way few Americans are willing to accept.
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The challenge of wealth for people in the United States is that we’d rather fight about what it implies about the person rather than their behavior.
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As the disciples move closer to Jerusalem, our awareness of the journey mirrors theirs: distracted, distant, and self-directed.
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This Week: Proper 22B Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 This week’s gospel is deceptive. It seems like it is about divorce. It seems straightforward. And we might be lulled into thinking it encourages a prohibition on divorce or else defends a Christian opposition to divorce. This is a pretty weak take. This gospel story concludes with even more…