-
·
Blessing is an Invitation to Build Something Better
In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.
-
·
For Love, For God — for Epiphany 4A
Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.
-
·
Blessed when we don’t want to be
The first challenge in Jesus’s vision of blessing is it counters the common one. The second is that the powerful like things the way they are.
-
·
Blessing — it’s complicated, actually
How many of us conceive of blessing is predicated on an ancient prejudice. That we are good and deserving and others aren’t.
-
·
Our Secret Super Power
We are participating in the reimagining of sainthood and of our place in the world. And yet, the reason behind it remains the same.
-
·
Blessed with new sight
In both gospels for this week, we are invited to see things differently—about our world, the people around us, and how it all works.
-
·
The Beatitudes (Epiphany 4A)
This famous list of blessings is both beloved and often ignored. Because it is challenging to our status quo.
