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What if we’re being too social?
We think our common anxiety, division, and the epidemic of loneliness happens because we aren’t social. It’s the opposite.
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Messianic virtue
Jesus rejects Peter’s protection; not because it is wrong, but because it itself is a rejection of true messianic virtue.
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Virtuous and Wrong — For Proper 17A
This week, we are reminded of the challenge of speaking up—that our certainty can make us wrong.
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Getting behind the hard-working Jesus
Few passages set in relief how our relationship to Jesus is influenced by our own behavior—and values.
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Between Proper 16 + 17 (Year A)
This week, we have the second half of a story many would prefer to never think are even connected in the least bit.
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Everything we love
It takes a leap, not certainty. A risk. Being wrong. Being changed. Growing. This is the character of our entire faith.
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The selective character of calling this a new precedent
When we establish a precedent, we are choosing to follow a certain path. We like to pretend that none of this is our choice.
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Grammar rules and grammar suggestions
We want the rules of grammar to be fixed. They are not. Like everything in life, our desire for certainty is compromised by life itself.
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