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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Returning to an earlier point in the gospel of Matthew, we are invited to a moment in which Jesus is doing one radical act after another.
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Jesus pushes back at the impulse to focus our attention on one another, to the people who are good, while forgetting our love for everyone else.
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In the Great Commission, Jesus invites his followers to share the Good News, not convert the world to their ideological certainty.
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It is common to misrepresent doubt as antithetical to a life of faith. But it is essential to it, and therefore, not something we ought to fear.
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In the Day of Pentecost, we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit with great pomp and circumstance, but it relationship remains central.
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Figuring out the bigger picture of the divine project (is Jesus exclusive or not) seems more important than it is. The answer to both is yes.