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Rejected—and the morality of rejecting in return
Rejection is a prime example of something we hate experience and seem to love doing to others. Even when we don’t want to.
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Between Proper 21 + 22 (Year A)
The confrontations in the Temple continue. And understanding how they got there, and how that makes us feel, is essential.
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Love is Living Art
In his exploration of authority, Jesus confronts those confronting him, and reveals a way of being in the world that can save us all.
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Why being non-political is a worthy political act
The existential challenge for libraries and other institutions is that they are the subject of political attacks the public doesn’t support.
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Why “they started it” is the defense of the guilty
At once obvious and devious, focusing on who starts a conflict is a clever way to avoid thinking about who is exploiting it.
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Dealing with divine authority in the truthiness era
Digging into the confrontation over authority in this week’s gospel, we might make interesting connections with our own conversations.
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Conflict and Trust—for Proper 21A
When Jesus is questioned about his authority, we are confronted with our own sense of it—and of trust, conflict, and how we are to each other.
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Authority and the nature of our relationships
We often treat authority, like our understanding of power, as disembodied and other, rather than based in our relationships.
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