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Love as extremely normal—for Easter 6B
In commanding his disciples love one another, Jesus is setting as normal what we want to believe is optional—and really, occasional.
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Love—we have to learn it
We often treat love like an emotion that we merely experience. But Jesus commands us to love, to treat it like a behavior we are to learn.
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Reluctance and Commands—for Proper 25A
When Jesus tells the lawyer that loving God and our neighbor as ourselves is the greatest commandment, are we truly with him?
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Love isn’t really a suggestion
We find it easy to excuse retaliation or xenophobia as natural or necessary—an exception. But the rule is love. It is our command.
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Some Thoughts On Decline
There’s a consistency to our talk of decline. What to blame. How to fix it. Talk and action. Still missing the point.
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Collecting Failures
The thing about love is that we act as if it’s optional. Like we have a choice. Jesus doesn’t actually give us the choice.
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The Greatest Commandment
When asked “What is the greatest commandment?” Jesus’s famous response isn’t just about loving God and neighbor. It says our love depends on it. When Jesus is asked to name the greatest commandment, he doesn’t skip a beat. Love God. But how he responds to this question is truly remarkable. There’s nothing remarkable in the…
