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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The assumed division of rivals is treated as impenetrable and impossible to resolve. But it is often only a failure of imagination.
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Part of the challenge of the story of Nicodemus visiting Jesus at night is that we are too accepting of the inherent conflict.
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Jesus’s teaching on secrecy and openness is complex. A more fundamental truth is needed for making sense of it: honesty.
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The temptation in the wilderness isn’t a mere trick or a promise of true power, but a false invitation to abandon the very love of God.
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We have a tortured view of discipline in the United States. One that is shamefully unChristian. But, like us, it can be changed.