love – Drew Downs

Love as extremely normal—for Easter 6B

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2 min read

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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1 min read

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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7 min read

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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3 min read

Algorithms claim to help us engage with what we love but often create a self-reinforcing feedback loop instead.

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2 min read

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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2 min read

When we read about Jesus’s exorcizing of demons, many of us focus on belief and facts, rather than the message Jesus shares.