Advocating Love
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Jesus says that another advocate is coming — one that gives us the chance to live into our promise in the world.
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Jesus says that another advocate is coming — one that gives us the chance to live into our promise in the world.
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The struggle we have, entering into this particular gospel, is to recognize just how much context can reshape our vision of it.
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As a new year begins, we are drawn to being better than we are. Which is good. But above that is God’s love.
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In reading the opening of the gospel of John on Christmas Day, we get a better sense of God’s vision for creation.
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The Christmas story, of the birth of Jesus, we are offered a vision of hope for all, but especially for those in need.
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What is the right thing to do? Always the question. Strangely never really solved. Because it is never the only question.
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The Trinity is hard. Understanding it. And living it. But that is precisely what Jesus is inviting us to work out.
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Jesus leaves the disciples a parting gift: peace. What we still get wrong about it and why pairing it with love is central.