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Between Proper 25 + 26. Or All Saints.
Let’s dive into the context for both choices we get for this Sunday. Continue the story into Matthew 23, or honor all of the saints?
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Love all the way down
There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.
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How rejecting conspiracy theories can actually obscure the truth
Most of us understand that conspiracy theories are fake. But in rejecting them, we miss the very means of disrupting them.
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Why being the Devil’s Advocate is a bankrupt profession
We love the idea. And the phrase is so common. Offer a different perspective. Doesn’t matter if its useful. Make sure we talk anyway.
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To be at least something like God
Our gospel this week returns to ideas of love and authority. Two concepts that seem, at first, to have nothing to do with each other. And yet…
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Reluctance and Commands—for Proper 25A
When Jesus tells the lawyer that loving God and our neighbor as ourselves is the greatest commandment, are we truly with him?
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Love isn’t really a suggestion
We find it easy to excuse retaliation or xenophobia as natural or necessary—an exception. But the rule is love. It is our command.
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Between Proper 24 + 25 (Year A)
This week, the lectionary skips over the confrontation with the Sadducees over Levirate Marriage. Another attempt to trap and discredit Jesus.
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