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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To deal with the transfiguration of Jesus, we must deal with the limitations of our vision, of our sense of real, of the world itself.
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As Jesus continues preaching the sermon on the mount, modern readers need to remember the wider context of our greater calling.
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When Jesus compares his followers to salt, it offers a complex note to the modern understanding of nutrition, health, life, how to be.
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Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.
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The first challenge in Jesus’s vision of blessing is it counters the common one. The second is that the powerful like things the way they are.
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When the state makes enemies of protestors, it uses the language of violence as cover to use violence against them, to disempower them.