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Preaching divorce and unity
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7 min read
This Week: Proper 22B Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 This week’s gospel is deceptive. It seems like it is about divorce. It seems straightforward. And we might be lulled into thinking it encourages a prohibition on divorce or else defends a Christian opposition to divorce. This is a pretty weak take. This gospel story concludes with even more…
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The challenge of unity—for Proper 22B
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2 min read
The challenge in Jesus’s teaching on divorce is not that he praises “staying together,” but that we don’t get what together means.
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Commitment—marriage is living transformed
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2 min read
We often categorize one’s commitment in marriage as traditional and conservative, but it is something far more transgressive.
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Between Proper 21 + 22 (Year B)
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2 min read
Our location changes in the gospel this week—so what is the impact of place as we head back to Judea and consider what is to come?
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Let us all be free
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9 min read
Jesus engages the disciples in their distraction and confusion—naming the way they are becoming the temptation to sin.
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Let’s not jealously undermine a stranger
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9 min read
When the disciples see a stranger exorcizing a demon in the name of Jesus, they react strongly. And to this, Jesus reacts strongly.
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