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Dealing with divine authority in the truthiness era
Digging into the confrontation over authority in this week’s gospel, we might make interesting connections with our own conversations.
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Conflict and Trust—for Proper 21A
When Jesus is questioned about his authority, we are confronted with our own sense of it—and of trust, conflict, and how we are to each other.
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Authority and the nature of our relationships
We often treat authority, like our understanding of power, as disembodied and other, rather than based in our relationships.
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Not Force, But Faith
While Jesus condemns the will to power, we can’t imagine a world without it. So maybe we should try harder.
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Who wants a King? – the seduction of power
The challenge of crowning Jesus as king is that he doesn’t want the title. There’s a problem, too, with insisting it.
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Tracing two lines back
The blessed servant or the righteous king lineage. When these two stories compete, which wins? And what does this say about us?
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You Can’t Make Me
The problem with the phrase, you can’t make me, is not whether it’s true. The problem is that the very idea is fundamentally unjust.
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Between — Back to John the Baptist
All this jumping around in the lectionary is making me dizzy. Now we’re back to John the Baptist. But a question remains unanswered.