Drew Downs, Writing with Hope – Make a New Normal

Listening in parables—for Proper 23A

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There’s something about parables we just get. They connect with us better than any other teaching. And they have far more depth.

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Clothes, and our expectations for what we wear and when, are a strange thing to condemn one another for. Well, really, ever.

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For two straight weeks, Jesus throws out parables that challenge the Temple leaders by questioning what they value and why.

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A parable of wickedness told to the wicked creates a challenge for people of faith who seek to do good — it is a call to good courage.

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What we understand as up and down is relative to our location. Locations that, themselves, are relative to each other—it is all relative.

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Debates on what clothes make a professional seem reasonable and valuable. But they hide our confusion over our true values.