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The great tension at the heart of Lent
What is going on for many of us in Lent is being told that we need self-control and then reading why control is a problem.
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Between the Fourth and Fifth Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)
In Jesus’s visit to Capernaum, we are confronted with our own stuff about the world. But the context offers us a different look at things.
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The honest option for House Speaker nobody said out loud
We have a political problem and a media problem. But at the core of it, we have a perception problem. About what we’re actually hoping for.
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Dressed—wearing the right clothes
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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The insufferable dullness of being realistic
When we think we are being realistic, we think we are helping. We have no idea that we are actually offering the situation very little.
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Humility is a strength
Culture rarely rewards humility. It loves the flash of authority arrogance brings. But humility is a stronger tool.
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Expectations are fluid
We treat expectations like they’re rigid and predictable. And they might seem to be. Until one set meets another.
