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Between Lent 3 & 4 (Year A)
After the woman at the well, Jesus gets rebellious at home, drives a wedge between his followers, and takes on the leaders.
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The Woman, Jesus, or the Well? (Lent 3A)
Finding a way into the story of the woman at the well isn’t usually a problem. Hearing the true generosity is harder.
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Between Lent 2 & 3 (Year A)
Between Nicodemus and the woman at the well is some teaching we don’t want and John the Baptist deferring even more.
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Intimate Distance
The woman at the well presents a unique challenge for us in a moment of anxiety, confusion, and distance. Which also makes it an opportunity.
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Living Waters
Growing up on Lake Huron, in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan, the living water of the Great Lakes is persistently present. Like a slumbering beast you knew would awaken. Not to us by the shore, by the harbor where fishing boats and freighters would dock. But out a few miles from…
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From Night to Day: reconciling, faith, and the Kingdom walk
a Homily for Lent 3A Text: John 4:5-42 The Story Our scene turns from Nicodemus, who seeks Jesus at night to an unnamed woman who stumbles upon him in the middle of the day. I think we are supposed to juxtapose these contrasting characters from chapters 3 and 4. Night/Day. Man/Woman. Named/Nameless. Leader/Commoner. Insider/Outsider. Hebrew/Samaritan.…
