Lent 3C – Drew Downs

Without Sin — the implicit bias that clouds our judgment

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8 min read

When people ask Jesus for a hot take on a recent scandal, he interrogates their assumption that the victims brought it on themselves.

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4 min read

The challenge Jesus offers us is to look past our assumptions about sin and tragedy and instead toward what we do to each other.

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2 min read

The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.

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8 min read

Jesus challenges us to see beyond asking why things happen and toward what we are called to do in light of it.

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3 min read

Sometimes we struggle with the gospel because the story we tell ourselves is so strong. And we forget it is there.

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9 min read

This morning’s lectionary is full of conflict and confusion, but Paul and Jesus are both compelling us to see that we’re the ones creating it.