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The Disciples at the Well — for Lent 3A
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2 min read
The rebelliousness and transgressive character of Jesus is generous, inclusive. He knows he has access to the good water.
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Well — Jacob, inheritance, and family separation
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The assumed division of rivals is treated as impenetrable and impossible to resolve. But it is often only a failure of imagination.
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Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a beautiful expression of what love and devotion might look like, when we begin to uncover it ourselves.
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Reflecting on Nicodemus and Fear — for Lent 2A
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2 min read
Part of the challenge of the story of Nicodemus visiting Jesus at night is that we are too accepting of the inherent conflict.
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In Secret — the internal conflict of an open faith
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2 min read
Jesus’s teaching on secrecy and openness is complex. A more fundamental truth is needed for making sense of it: honesty.
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Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.
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