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Why our response to overwhelming doom isn’t working now
The challenge of the moment is capitalizing on our overwhelm and our isolation. The solution is to spend more time together.
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Seeking the mind of the father
We ought to read the the parable of the prodigal son with the other lost parables — it helps us better see the mind of the father.
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A Crazy Love—for Lent 4C
The parable we know as the Prodigal Son is a story of grace and disappointment. And in its setting is a reminder of our relationships.
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On sinners and eating with them
Jesus undermines the prohibition of relationship between the ritually pure and the condemned because grace is more important.
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Without Sin — the implicit bias that clouds our judgment
When people ask Jesus for a hot take on a recent scandal, he interrogates their assumption that the victims brought it on themselves.
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Thinking about stuff and drinking coffee
A check-in to talk about what I’m currently up to (still writing — and doing more of it) and what that means for the blog.
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This is not the Way of Love
The challenge Jesus offers us is to look past our assumptions about sin and tragedy and instead toward what we do to each other.
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We’re in this together—for Lent 3C
The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.
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