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Destination Unknown
Text: Mark 1:29-39 Distractions This gospel is like life: it has a lot of distractions. There are lots of details we could run down; tangents we could explore: These new disciples, their mom and her mysterious ailment, the demon possession. This gospel, on the other hand, is actually about the gospel. It is about moving, finding,…
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It’s That Time of Year…For Repentance?
Why do you hate Advent? Seriously. What did it ever do to you? It never tried to steal your lunch money. It never made up rumors about you and spread them around school. So what gives? Why are you talking about a holiday that isn’t even here while ignoring the season that is? It isn’t…
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Bartimaeus
This Sunday was my first opportunity to preach at my new parish. And what gospel do I get, but one of the deepest, most revealing stories in Mark–and therefore one of the most difficult. But in my wrestling with this pericope, something was awoken within me. Something that still has me wrestling. My homily wasn’t…