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Love as one
We struggle with the nature of marriage and divorce, especially in light of Jesus’s invitation to unity; but unity itself is the way forward.
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Preaching divorce and unity
This Week: Proper 22B Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 This week’s gospel is deceptive. It seems like it is about divorce. It seems straightforward. And we might be lulled into thinking it encourages a prohibition on divorce or else defends a Christian opposition to divorce. This is a pretty weak take. This gospel story concludes with even more…
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The challenge of unity—for Proper 22B
The challenge in Jesus’s teaching on divorce is not that he praises “staying together,” but that we don’t get what together means.
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Between Proper 19 + 20 (Year A)
Jesus’s teachings on marriage, children, and wealth are a reminder of our weakness and how God’s dream is actually arranged.
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It’s not really about divorce
When Jesus is asked about divorce in Mark 10:2-16, we act like he’s given us an answer. What he’s given us is a whole new question. Again Jesus pushes us to see the forest, not the trees. Proper 22B | Mark 10:2-16 Let me say at the top that Jesus doesn’t condemn divorce. Let’s first…
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Possessing the Kingdom
He’s not mincing words. The Kingdom belongs to them. Not the disciples. Not the Pharisees. Not the Romans. The children. We need to hear these words. How our focus on law and politics misses the real revelation Proper 22B | Mark 10:2-16 The Long Walk is Almost Over The walk from Caesarea Philippi to Jerusalem is…
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Redefining Marriage
a Homily for Proper 22B Text: Mark 10:2-16 Jesus condemns more than divorce Our story begins once again with the Pharisees asking Jesus a tricky question: “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” Before we go any further, hear the question itself: not the one we wish were asked. not Is it right/moral/ethical…
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Deconstructing Marriage (Eating Scripture)
Eating Mark 10:2-16 Jesus has been talking about children a lot lately. He said that how you treat a child is how you treat GOD. Then he angrily scolds the disciples about any little one that gets a stumbling block from them should cause them to cut off their hands or feet. He is speaking…