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Student Teaching Grace
Pentecost is a moment of empowerment. But what are we being empowered to do? We often use the confusion to avoid doing anything.
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The Time of Temptation
In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.
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Holy — a tension of royalty and humility
In Palm Sunday, we get the bittersweet realization that we’re not going to get to kill our enemies and assume power.
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At that very time
Jesus challenges us to see beyond asking why things happen and toward what we are called to do in light of it.
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New Life in an Old World
The Baptism of Jesus is the beginning of the story. And it reminds us of the central theme of the gospel is new life.
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Keeping the Plot
What the Little Apocalypse of Mark reveals about following Jesus – and why we’re scared to learn the truth about ourselves.
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Rescuing Sainthood
I’ve been thinking a lot about saints. Partly because it is that time of year. And partly because I launched a podcast with the word Saints in the title. But more than anything, I’m focused on what we, you and I, think of sainthood. There isn’t one universal experience with the concept of sainthood, but…