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Incarnate Grace
John’s gospel invites us to see the scope of what we celebrate at Christmas: that an event changes how we see everything.
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We get to start somewhere
This week, we read about the beginning of the good news. Mark’s gospel is a story without an ending. It only ever begins.
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We get to love like this
The challenge of loving like Jesus isn’t that we’ll do it wrong. It’s that we think it depends on our being a good person.
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Out of Darkness
The odd nature of this parable invites us to dig deeper, not into what we think it says, but into what we already know about Jesus’s mission.
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Dressed—wearing the right clothes
Clothes, and our expectations for what we wear and when, are a strange thing to condemn one another for. Well, really, ever.
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Rejected—and the morality of rejecting in return
Rejection is a prime example of something we hate experience and seem to love doing to others. Even when we don’t want to.
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Mercy as strategy and purpose
Rather than think of mercy as something we’re supposed to do when something happens, we cast it as a way of being in the world.
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Inquisitions are supposed to be rare—for Proper 18A
When helping people right their wrongs, it’s easy to find wrongs everywhere—and being the one to save them.