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Holy Week at Home
This period of time may be isolating enough. We didn’t need a pandemic to tell us that. But we are presently afforded the opportunity to turn ourselves and our families in mind of something deeper. With that in mind, I wrote a short daily devotion for home use that guides us daily through Holy Week.…
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What is the Christian response to sacrificing lives to save the market?
Don’t. Ever. [Seriously. Stop trying to come up with exceptions.]
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Saint Joseph
Listening to that gospel story about Jesus in the Temple has new resonance for us today. Those of us who grew up with stranger danger already freak out at the thought of leaving our pre-teen son in a strange, public place for hours. Now it’s all the scarier when what surrounds us is a deadly…
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Worship, Lent, & COVID-19
I also wrote this letter to the congregation.
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Between — The Big Crowds and the Big Sermon
We have a way of mistaking the fame of Jesus in the gospels for something mundane. Rather than what it is: a reflection of the mission.
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Between — The Temptation of Jesus
In chapter 4 of Matthew, we get two stories: the temptation of Jesus and the calling of the disciples. We ought to read them together.
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Between — More from John the Baptist
This lectionary jump could be fruitful if we’re willing to first recognize the jump. And then, take what John has to say seriously.
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Between — How to Forget About a Massacre
making the rest of Matthew’s birth story a liturgical after thought, we are overlooking one of the most powerful parts of Scripture.