discipleship
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Out of Darkness
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9 min read
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
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1 min read
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
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1 min read
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
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1 min read
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
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3 min read
When helping people right their wrongs, it’s easy to find wrongs everywhere—and being the one to save them.
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Love—and dealing with the sin of others
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1 min read
Most of us don’t like talking to someone else about something they’ve done. We need to first figure out why we want to.