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Between Proper 15 + 16 (Year B)
The ongoing themes in John 6 are easy to miss when we focus on the image Jesus offers of the bread of life. Here’s what we might miss.
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Beyond Misunderstanding
Most Americans are steeped in a tradition of binary thinking that does make decision making easier, but also a lot less honest.
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Unlocking the bigger picture
There’s a paradox in understanding other people—to being open to hear them and in their words not telling the whole story to us.
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On Literal and Metaphorical—for Proper 15B
This week’s gospel reflection is about how we take the meaning of an image, its linguistic challenge, and what we need to focus on.
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The game of not getting it
With following Jesus, the point is not to understand or to win, but to understand Jesus. To get what he is about and wants for us.
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Making him king—for Proper 12B
In this week’s reflection, we respond to the people’s reaction to a Jesus miracle: that they want to make Jesus a king by force.
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Feeding—meeting the needs of multitudes
Our own experience of the miracle feeding of the multitudes is often plagued by the skepticism that creates the need for it.
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