Great Commandment
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Love all the way down
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6 min read
There’s a thing we miss about the great commandment: to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. And that is that we are made of love.
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Not Far From the Kingdom
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6 min read
The Greatest Commandment doesn’t answer a question: it responds to it. Which makes this a story of embodied love.
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Christians love on the inside and the outside.
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3 min read
25. Christians should be taught that faith is both an internal and external commitment to love. The fundamental character of faith is love. Some of us talk about love and we often try to express love, but we rarely equate faith with love. We see love as living out our faith. Or we like to say that our faith inspires our love. But this…
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The Encounter With the Lawyer
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3 min read
The most important part of the passage about the Good Samaritan in Luke may not be the parable itself. It is the two questions which provoke its telling. What must I do to inherit eternal life? And who is my neighbor?’ I usually enter the gospel by reading over the last chapter. I want to…
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First, Love
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7 min read
How Jesus’s subversive call to love continues to challenge us a Homily for Proper 25A | Text: Matthew 22:34-46 Commander Love Love GOD. Love neighbor. This is the basis for all of our teaching. We can see it, too. When we read those first five books of our sacred scripture, those written in Hebrew, we…
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Our Fast
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5 min read
It is fitting that Congress set All Saints’ Day as the day to cut SNAP (the program formerly known as Food Stamps). The day we celebrate all of the saints that came before, all the saints in our midst, and all of the saints to come, All Saints’ Day is one of the church’s principle…