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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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One Week is Not Enough
To understand what we’re doing. Learn how to love. Be the person God is calling me to be. Expecting things to just be different.
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Algorithmic Love
Algorithms claim to help us engage with what we love but often create a self-reinforcing feedback loop instead.
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God is Love—for Lent 4B
What it means to love, to offer ourselves, to give and become different, is much bigger than any slogan we can come up with.
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Keep it about the Good News—for Epiphany 5B
When we read about Jesus’s exorcizing of demons, many of us focus on belief and facts, rather than the message Jesus shares.
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Incarnate Grace
John’s gospel invites us to see the scope of what we celebrate at Christmas: that an event changes how we see everything.
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We get to love like this
The challenge of loving like Jesus isn’t that we’ll do it wrong. It’s that we think it depends on our being a good person.