discipleship
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This week’s gospel is too easily taken as a reflection on leadership, or the need for better leaders. That’s not it.
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When Jesus transgresses boundaries, he exposes the way people focus on the wrong thing. Like when we do it, too.
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The essential, necessary character of the Ascension, may seem like a challenge for us, but it is grace for us.
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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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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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The image of the shepherd challenges the comfortable, moderate church to be responsible for our common safety.