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Untying the colt — danger and fear in the triumphal entry
Scripture offers us two visions of the triumphal entry, depending on how we imagine the moment and I kinda like the rebellious one.
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Celebrating in Grief—for Lent 5C
How we understand the character of Jesus, and more importantly, our relationship to that vision, determines our response to him.
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Prudence and the desire to just keep saving
When we read this story and think of waste, we are being seduced, not with a virtuous desire for service, but an unhealthy desire to be right.
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A Crazy Love—for Lent 4C
The parable we know as the Prodigal Son is a story of grace and disappointment. And in its setting is a reminder of our relationships.
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On sinners and eating with them
Jesus undermines the prohibition of relationship between the ritually pure and the condemned because grace is more important.
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We’re in this together—for Lent 3C
The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.
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Repent — the virtue of a second chance
There is a way we focus on what the word has come to mean to us, rather than what it means to Jesus — another chance at grace.
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These Pharisees are not good enough — for Lent 2C
As they come to warn Jesus of Herod’s intentions, Jesus sends them back with a message: he know the king’s murderous intentions.