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Angels & encountering the divine
The question offered by the angel encounters that surround Jesus’s birth is not what we would do, but what we do.
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How the political binary breaks our brains.
We think we’re searching for the truth. But when we use binary (either/or) thinking, we are setting up competition.
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Why follower counts are meaningless for leaders
There are multiple reasons to follow someone. We are being manipulated by the idea that higher counts are validating.
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John’s not so sure about Jesus (Advent 3A)
The gospel for the third week of Advent (year A) is messy, because we may not be sure what Jesus is trying to say.
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What do you seek?
After being confronted by followers of John the Baptist, Jesus reminds them this whole project is way bigger than that.
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Greatness—toughness and path-straighening
The temptation in this gospel is to hear Jesus talking up toughness as virtuous—rather than normal for a prophet.
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