borders
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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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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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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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Jesus is challenged by the Canaanite woman to see her daughter’s humanity—to learn something from her.
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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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In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.