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To be at least something like God
Our gospel this week returns to ideas of love and authority. Two concepts that seem, at first, to have nothing to do with each other. And yet…
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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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Love is Living Art
In his exploration of authority, Jesus confronts those confronting him, and reveals a way of being in the world that can save us all.
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Normalize Mercy
The challenge of stumbling into Matthew 18 without its context is that we get the point Jesus is trying to make completely backward.
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Love—and dealing with the sin of others
Most of us don’t like talking to someone else about something they’ve done. We need to first figure out why we want to.
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Big City or Small Town
Where you live is not a sign that a size of community is better. Better to live in a way to make any community better.
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Welcome — our radical orthodoxy
The concept of welcome is generous and novel today. It used to be normal. That difference is important for us to recognize.
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Living Grace
Perhaps we avoid the Ascension, to keep Jesus present, in control. To avoid his command: that we love each other.