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Zacchaeus (Proper 26C)
When reading about Jesus meeting Zacchaeus, the man who climbed up the tree, chances are, we’re already invested.
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Changing Perspectives
When Jesus encounters Zacchaeus, we get a story that is more than encouragement for boldness in our own faith.
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Right or Just? (Proper 25C)
The parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is an evocative teaching that complicates as we address it personally.
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Righteousness and Contempt
Again, it is tempting to take a parable from Jesus as an invitation to be better than others, even when we know better.
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Righteous as a dirty word
There is nothing wrong with doing right. Or with being confident that we are right. We shouldn’t think we are righteous.
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The Widow and Unjust Judge (Proper 24C)
Jesus tells a parable about persistence in the midst of fear and oppression. A story, not only of angst, but of hope.
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Keeping Faith Today
This parable about persistence reveals that the point isn’t to always work hard. The point is that faith can demand it.
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Persistence as an act of resistance
We often isolate the need to persist from the experience of oppression. But it is the demand for justice that fuels it.