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Brilliant light for dark times
One of the flaws in our thinking is that we see ourselves as needing to be condemned by the one who wouldn’t.
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Forgive, Again
Jesus’s teachings on forgiveness aren’t just hard because we don’t want to do it. We like doing the opposite.
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While we’re focused on doing it right
So much of our energy is focused on what we are supposed to do at any given moment, we hardly listen to what Jesus is saying.
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In these fields
We often mistake the pursuit of justice as a problem. Then punish the justice seeker rather than extrajudicial violence.
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Beyond the Right Answer
Peter mistakes Jesus’s talk about who he is as a question of identity. But Jesus is always talking about relationship.
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How to avoid solving a problem
Protests are an opportunity to hear from the powerless. They aren’t a problem that needs to be fixed.
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The Gospel Accessible
Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle remind us to focus not on our impairments, but on the gospel itself.
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Tough Questions
When Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is, he invites his followers to dig past identity. And into what they have seen. what is Jesus inviting all of us into?Proper 16A | Matthew 16:13-20 Jesus asks his followers a pair of tough questions in this gospel. They aren’t complex, of course. Jesus isn’t…
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