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The value and depth of how we look
How we look communicates something to other people. Only part of which is something under our control.
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Between Proper 12 + 13 (Year A)
In the gap in the lectionary, we skip over two essential stories which set up how we understand power moving forward.
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Seeking something new
The invitation to change—to be changed or to change the world around us—is both necessary and something we avoid.
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The truth about polarization we don’t want to hear
We talk about polarization like its something that happens to us. Rather than the byproduct of what we’re actually doing.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is like…
a mustard seed, yeast, treasure, a pearl. Something valuable. But what IS it? That things can actually be better than this.
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Gathering Desires
Abundance and accumulation—when we deal with the desires to have something (even the Kingdom), the limit remains us.
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Desire — my dreams or our dreams
When we talk about pursuing our dreams, what are we saying about everyone else in the world? About our common pursuits?

