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Our own isolation— from COVID and one another
This is a section I cut out of this week’s sermon comparing the two main responses to COVID with what Jesus does in healing the lepers.
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Neighbors for love — Restoration at a time of division
The story of Jesus healing the ten suffering leprosy is a story about borders and boundaries and the way Jesus defies them all for love.
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Jesus in the Borderlands—for Proper 23C
This week’s gospel takes Jesus into the space between, the place to which neighbors cast out neighbors to punish and forget them.
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Foreign — faith and the challenge of proximity
Jesus challenges our expectations of community, of borders, and how we treat those around us. Regardless of where they come from.
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The In-Between
In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.
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Healing of the Ten (Proper 23C)
In this evocative story from the midst of the borderlands, Jesus places himself as a border-crosser and boundary-breaker.
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Mistakes — when there is no “wrong thing”
We can be so eager to punish mistakes — ours and the ones others make. But that doesn’t seem to be what Jesus is doing.
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Saving Faith
Jesus’s message of restoration buts up against his critique of the status quo. Now, he invites us to see that faith can save us; and we can save faith.