For Sunday
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How our love of fairness blinds us—for Proper 20A
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2 min read
Wealth, hard work, and fairness are all tangled up in our imagination. This blinds us to our impact on the experiences of others.
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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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Before they call him Messiah
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2 min read
This week’s gospel comes after a change of scope and an offering of signs. The context, as always, is key to the story.
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A division we don’t see
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3 min read
Jesus is challenged by the Canaanite woman to see her daughter’s humanity—to learn something from her.
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Maybe we’d rather be sinking
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2 min read
This week, we’re dealing with fear, desire, faith, and hope. And strangely, it seems, we’d rather go with the fear over everything else.
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The Transfiguration
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2 min read
The Transfiguration is one of the most impressive, confusing, and distracting stories about Jesus in Scripture.