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After the Violence—for Proper 27A
We usually read the parable of the bridesmaids as a teaching about preparedness. But it is a chilling challenge to selfish comforts.
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Between Proper 25 + 27 (Year A)
This week’s gospel comes to us as a final exam—not a random teaching. That context, in the last days, is central to our understanding of it.
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Literal Urgency
Jesus’s apocalyptic vision seems confusing. Until we focus on what he’s trying to say rather than what we hear.
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Advent—here now and coming soon
The season of Advent combines the sense of anticipating heaven in the now and at a moment some time in the future.
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A Better World
When Jesus describes this apocalyptic vision, the terror is what we focus on. But Jesus wants us to see the hope.
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Talking About Devastation (Proper 28C)
In Temple destruction and community division, Jesus paints a frightening picture with the reminder to not fear it.
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The worries of this life
A devotional for the First Sunday of Advent Collect Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when…
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