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On Not Reading it Wrong — choosing God over money
Some of Jesus’s parables can be confusing to modern readers, expecting something that looks like God rather than the opposition.
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Within a decent community — for Proper 20C
The parable of the dishonest manager invites us to think about our own behavior for sure. But it is just as much about our community.
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Why money is dangerous
The parable in Luke 16 is confounding. If we think Jesus is saying something different from what he normally says.
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The Rich Man, Manager, God, and Wealth (Proper 20C)
In this week’s gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who is going to fire a manager. Of course there’s more to it.
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Complexity and Clarity
In Jesus’s teaching for Proper 20C, we get a vision of complexity that leads to clarity. It isn’t one or the other.
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Faithful—doing right when everything seems wrong
The challenge of doing “right” is not so much in knowing, but in dealing with the sense of many rights. And which is most “good.”
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Bad Economics
Jesus keeps teaching us about the limits of transactional thinking — and the life-giving beauty of sacrifice in his way of love.