For Sunday
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The Final Argument
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2 min read
The teaching at the end of Matthew 25 serves to remind Christians of our focus: not to our own interests, but in helping those around us.
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The Cautionary Tale—for Proper 28A
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2 min read
This week we’re invited to reimagine the story we think we’re receiving—not as an invitation to do things, but to see what it begets.
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After the Violence—for Proper 27A
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2 min read
We usually read the parable of the bridesmaids as a teaching about preparedness. But it is a chilling challenge to selfish comforts.
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The Idol Separation of Powers—for Proper 24A
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3 min read
In our reflection for this Sunday, we examine what it is we want this gospel to do and why. And why this misses Jesus’s mark for us.
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Listening in parables—for Proper 23A
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2 min read
There’s something about parables we just get. They connect with us better than any other teaching. And they have far more depth.
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Seeing the wicked or the good? — for Proper 22A
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2 min read
With a parable of wickedness, our minds turn to their own kind of wickedness, not redemption, or goodness. But they could.