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Conviction and turning the other cheek
There is a certain depiction in US culture that the command to love is weak, but it is actually the primary building block of protest.
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The true freedom of love
The modern understanding of evangelism is off. It is selfish and embraces our individualism while Jesus invites us into common love.
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Every opportunity to love
The Presentation of Our Lord at the temple offers us another opportunity to witness others’ response to faith, to embody it with hope.
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The Christmas Stories and the true spirit of the season
In the stories of the birth of Jesus, we don’t just find facts about him worth knowing, but a way of being in the world today.
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Blessed—the joy in being entrusted
The concept of blessing itself challenges our visions of what it means to be given something of real value, even trust.
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Open to delight
The coming of John the Baptist invites us to not only hear his words, but considering the context, recognize how they are for us, too.
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Poverty is a death sentence
To go without food and water is deadly. And in recent times, we started to treat access as a luxury for people to earn.
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Love as one
We struggle with the nature of marriage and divorce, especially in light of Jesus’s invitation to unity; but unity itself is the way forward.