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Do we have too many leaders?
Is it possible to have too many leaders in an organization? Only if we think of leadership as authority and not initiative.
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The tougher reading (Easter 4A)
Lectionary preachers have a challenge in Easter 4A. A choice between economics and safety. And none of it feels safe.
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A Shepherd and a Gate
In our reading, Jesus switches metaphors. From one we like to one that is more troubling. But it doesn’t have to be.
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Welcome—offering it and feeling it
People can really obsess about being welcomed. Often more than the welcoming they do. But maybe it is quite simple.
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Between Easter 3 + 4 (Year A)
What we need to know between weeks three and four of Easter is that we are revisiting a moment we started in Lent.
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Rejecting what is real
In the resurrection stories of Easter, we encounter, not just the risen Christ, but the doubt of the disciples.
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Disconnected
How our hyper-individualized focus betrays our sense of what is rational and the very stuff that keeps us together.
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Good News Takes Effort
We all say we want more “good news”. But why don’t we have more of it? Well, it has more to do with selling than value.
