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Dealing with the subjectivity of good and bad
We treat good and bad as absolutes, rather than subjective identifiers of what could be. Which means we can be wrong.
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Between Proper 10 + 11 (Year A)
A couple pieces the lectionary skips over reveal a lot about the texts we’re reading. And much more about ourselves.
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The sabbath-stealing power of comparison
Comparing ourselves and other people is a perpetual and constant behavior we mistakenly believe makes us better.
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What bothsides coverage really reveals about us
While bothsides coverage is the fallback character of the modern news room, it is distorts and avoids the truth.
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The false scarcity of good soil
Jesus doesn’t give us a challenging teaching here. It’s straight-forward. But our brains do something weird with it.
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Becoming Healthier Soil
The challenge of discipleship is not only becoming better or less bad. It is becoming self-aware enough to do either.
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Growth—why we can’t seem to focus on outcomes
We think we want to grow. So why don’t we? Why can we be obsessed with the outcome and yet never achieve it?

