Tag: fair

  • The Collapsing Boundaries of War

    The Collapsing Boundaries of War

    War messes with our moral compass. But it is the sense of inevitability that does far more damage. Our work is to enforce those boundaries.

  • How our love of fairness blinds us—for Proper 20A

    How our love of fairness blinds us—for Proper 20A

    Wealth, hard work, and fairness are all tangled up in our imagination. This blinds us to our impact on the experiences of others.

  • Beyond the fair question

    Beyond the fair question

    Sometimes the story is about the money. Sometimes it is about more than that. Either way, it’s about money.

  • Apples and Oranges – or when a swim cap is just a swim cap

    Apples and Oranges – or when a swim cap is just a swim cap

    We’re familiar with the phrase “comparing apples and oranges”. The problem with the phrase is that most of the time we aren’t trying to classify all the apples or all the oranges: we’re trying to classify fruit. Which means we think the difference between them doesn’t matter. But when “fruit” is defined as “red”, crisp…

  • We Labor Together

    Fairness in the Kingdom is not about your wealth, but our health a Homily for Proper 20 A  |  Text: Matthew 20:1-16 GOD’s way doesn’t seem fair It seems fitting that we would spend my last few weeks here dealing with what holy community looks like to Jesus. It is almost as if He’s trying to tell us something. I…