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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Recent data shows the mainline clergy are more likely to be liberal than their congregations. We shouldn’t assume this is real. Or matters.
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The Birth Story of Jesus is a big deal to Christians . . . except that Matthew gives us a story in passive focus, not on Jesus, but Joseph.
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The place of Joseph in the birth story, in the angel visitation, to the promise that is to come, is an invitation extended to us all.
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The encounter between John the Baptist’s followers and Jesus is instructive for us, helping relieve our own insecurities about faith.
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Jesus challenges the people’s expectations of power and our ways of confronting it. That our expectations don’t match our reality.
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John the Baptist responds to the Pharisees and Sadducees with an incredulity we must notice. That it isn’t about defensiveness, but justice.