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Between Proper 19 + 20 (Year B)
Between the predictions of the Passion, Jesus confronts a moment of failure for the disciples, helping us see our lack of focus.
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The Seduction of Empire—rejecting its offer of fake peace
In the turning point in the gospel of Mark, Jesus is confronted with Peter’s ignorance and empire’s promise of safe oppression.
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Are we willing to see the ways that poverty kills?
a poem (with commentary) about the relationship between poverty and suicide—and our common willingness to ignore it.
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Unholy Expectations
In Jesus’s first passion prediction, we encounter the language of Messiah and cross-carrying, which we need some untangling.
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The Turning Point—for Proper 19B
In this week’s reflection, we look at Peter’s proclamation of Jesus as the Messiah and what we should learn from mission confusion.
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Messiah and a new kind of leader
The word “Messiah” is loaded with meaning—then and now. And that meaning is built around expectations that Jesus won’t embody.
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Between Proper 18 + 19 (Year B)
Between the gospels this week is a collection of snippets that help us see the way the disciples are starting to miss the point.
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Radiate Love
The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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