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Misplaced Accuracy
When Jesus transgresses boundaries, he exposes the way people focus on the wrong thing. Like when we do it, too.
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Between Easter 5 + 6 (Year A)
The struggle we have, entering into this particular gospel, is to recognize just how much context can reshape our vision of it.
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The Way is Right in Front of Us
This week, we get a familiar example of the challenge of literalism. How we struggle to see the answer is in front of us.
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Confrontation
The image of the shepherd challenges the comfortable, moderate church to be responsible for our common safety.
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Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)
After the woman at the well, Jesus gets rebellious at home, drives a wedge between his followers, and takes on the leaders.
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Harvest — and timely engagement
The image Jesus often uses of “the harvest” is useful and, at times, disorienting. Here’s why it can really work.
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Night time as the right time
Jesus’s encounter with Nicodemus is a story rich with possibility, value-judgment, and expectations. Reading it that way helps.
