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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Home again?—for Proper 9B
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3 min read
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)
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2 min read
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
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3 min read
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
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2 min read
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)
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3 min read
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
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4 min read
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?