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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.
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Advocating Love
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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Between Easter 5 + 6 (Year A)
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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Beloved—It’s better than being better
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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Grace and Truth
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 Longest Night
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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Always looking for the right thing
What is the right thing to do? Always the question. Strangely never really solved. Because it is never the only question.