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A New Opportunity to Live With Grace
The encounter of the sighted man born blind with the Pharisees reminds us that the grace of God is something radically transcendent.
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Trust in What You Can’t See — for Lent 4A
For this week’s reflection on the gospel, we must engage the physical and metaphorical meanings of seeing: and what it means to do both.
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Between Lent 4 & 5 (Year A)
Several chapters ago, the leaders began conspiring to kill him. Now Jesus is confronting their theological convictions.
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Avoiding Pain
This story is less about the miracle of giving sight to the blind, but the way the leaders avoid seeing grace.
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More than a healing (Lent 4A)
When Jesus gives sight to the man born blind, faith leaders try to destroy all the good that Jesus is doing.
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A Cause for Celebrating
The story of Jesus healing a man’s blindness should be joyous. Instead, faith leaders are making everyone miserable.
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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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When we are all blind
This isn’t a story of healing, but of spiritual blindness. A story about skepticism and the rhetorical knots we tie ourselves in. A story about seeing the truthLent 4A | John 9:1-41 The centerpiece of the story has to be the miracle, right? A stranger walks up, gives a man sight, and then keeps on…