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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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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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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We often isolate the need to persist from the experience of oppression. But it is the demand for justice that fuels it.
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In this evocative story from the midst of the borderlands, Jesus places himself as a border-crosser and boundary-breaker.
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The borderlands are as much a character in the story this week as any of the people. What we make of that is essential.
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We can be so eager to punish mistakes — ours and the ones others make. But that doesn’t seem to be what Jesus is doing.