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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Listening in parables—for Proper 23A
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2 min read
There’s something about parables we just get. They connect with us better than any other teaching. And they have far more depth.
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Between Proper 22 + 23 (Year A)
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2 min read
For two straight weeks, Jesus throws out parables that challenge the Temple leaders by questioning what they value and why.
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Wrestling with the wicked
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8 min read
The parable of the wicked tenants challenges us to see in it more than the Passion, but of the actions we treat as inevitable.
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Seeing the wicked or the good? — for Proper 22A
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2 min read
With a parable of wickedness, our minds turn to their own kind of wickedness, not redemption, or goodness. But they could.
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Rejected—and the morality of rejecting in return
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1 min read
Rejection is a prime example of something we hate experience and seem to love doing to others. Even when we don’t want to.
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Between Proper 21 + 22 (Year A)
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2 min read
The confrontations in the Temple continue. And understanding how they got there, and how that makes us feel, is essential.