Good News
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Between Advent 3 and 4 and Christmas (Year B)
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4 min read
The lectionary jumps a lot in these seasons. This jump takes away one of Luke’s best stories for describing the place of the Incarnation.
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Offering Water
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7 min read
In Pentecost, we have a miraculous event of divine communication. But the challenge is in remembering we are disciples.
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Being Good News
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1 min read
Being surrounded by bad news is exhausting. Trying to do good things can feel fruitless. And yet we know it is right.
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Avoiding the Gospel
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3 min read
In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.
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Gospel – what makes good news
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1 min read
Gospel, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.
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Beyond Despair: Love
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8 min read
There is a common cry of despair in the people of Gaza that sounds so much like West Virginia coal miners and residents of Peoplestown in Atlanta, Georgia. A cry of hopelessness and existential angst we show little willingness to assuage. The global response to the Gaza protests and Israeli gunfire last week has brought…