For Sunday
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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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Jesus is challenged by the Canaanite woman to see her daughter’s humanity—to learn something from her.
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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 is one of the most impressive, confusing, and distracting stories about Jesus in Scripture.
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Abundance and accumulation—when we deal with the desires to have something (even the Kingdom), the limit remains us.
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The greatest challenge with being good is often that we don’t know what to do with our sense of evil; and when that is us.