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Why Jesus tells us to love our enemies
In commanding his disciples to love everybody, Jesus is pushing us to reject the thinking we think is natural, obvious, required of us.
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The crazy idea that loving people actually works
People often concoct incredible scenarios to avoid dealing with the stuff Jesus is trying to say about loving the people around us.
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What good is love?—for Epiphany 7C
In the command to love, we are invited into a relationship that is neither weak nor stuck, but full of fidelity and life-affirming grace.
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Conviction and turning the other cheek
There is a certain depiction in US culture that the command to love is weak, but it is actually the primary building block of protest.
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Blessed by default
The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.
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Wealth is always relational
When talking about God’s blessing, we are necessarily confronted with the idea that we always seem to start talking about possessions.
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