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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In the raising of Lazarus, Jesus defies the expectations of him and opens the people to see the situation in a completely new way.
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For this week’s reflection on the gospel, we must engage the physical and metaphorical meanings of seeing: and what it means to do both.
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Part of the way many people of faith talk about healing denies the humanity of the person. Jesus is about equity and inclusion.
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The rebelliousness and transgressive character of Jesus is generous, inclusive. He knows he has access to the good water.
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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.