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Love as one
We struggle with the nature of marriage and divorce, especially in light of Jesus’s invitation to unity; but unity itself is the way forward.
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Preaching divorce and unity
This Week: Proper 22B Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 This week’s gospel is deceptive. It seems like it is about divorce. It seems straightforward. And we might be lulled into thinking it encourages a prohibition on divorce or else defends a Christian opposition to divorce. This is a pretty weak take. This gospel story concludes with even more…
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The challenge of unity—for Proper 22B
The challenge in Jesus’s teaching on divorce is not that he praises “staying together,” but that we don’t get what together means.
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God doesn’t insist I be better
For Sunday – October 3, 2021:the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and…
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It’s not really about divorce
When Jesus is asked about divorce in Mark 10:2-16, we act like he’s given us an answer. What he’s given us is a whole new question. Again Jesus pushes us to see the forest, not the trees. Proper 22B | Mark 10:2-16 Let me say at the top that Jesus doesn’t condemn divorce. Let’s first…