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Neighbors for love — Restoration at a time of division
The story of Jesus healing the ten suffering leprosy is a story about borders and boundaries and the way Jesus defies them all for love.
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Jesus in the Borderlands—for Proper 23C
This week’s gospel takes Jesus into the space between, the place to which neighbors cast out neighbors to punish and forget them.
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Foreign — faith and the challenge of proximity
Jesus challenges our expectations of community, of borders, and how we treat those around us. Regardless of where they come from.
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A division we don’t see
Jesus is challenged by the Canaanite woman to see her daughter’s humanity—to learn something from her.
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Borderlands—there are people who live between our worlds
We often think about borders as a line, dividing two places, but our borders are places, too. And they are inhabited.
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The In-Between
In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.
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Healing of the Ten (Proper 23C)
In this evocative story from the midst of the borderlands, Jesus places himself as a border-crosser and boundary-breaker.
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In the Borderlands
The borderlands are as much a character in the story this week as any of the people. What we make of that is essential.