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Feeling Justified
Being good and doing good. We usually make it a debate. And then marching orders. Above them, though, is mercy.
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Is there any faith?
Jesus tells stories that engage our assumptions; and drive us to consider what it is that we’re really avoiding.
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The In-Between
In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.
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Shifting Perspective
Jesus invites his disciples to look beyond the power, the expectations, and the culture to see what God is doing.
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Breaking Chasms
The key to the parable is the chasm: the one between God and wealth: and how we are all called to break it apart.
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The Rich Man, Manager, God, and Wealth (Proper 20C)
In this week’s gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who is going to fire a manager. Of course there’s more to it.
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Complexity and Clarity
In Jesus’s teaching for Proper 20C, we get a vision of complexity that leads to clarity. It isn’t one or the other.
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Something Lost (Proper 19C)
In the parables of the lost sheep and lost coin, Jesus reveals both the generosity of God and our role in the drama.