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Between Proper 24 + 25 (Year B)
Heading into this week’s gospel, we are reminded once again of the need to establish the context and remember where we are.
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Between Proper 23 + 24 (Year B)
In skipping over the third Passion prediction, the lectionary doesn’t help us connect the dots to the nature of the disciples’ error.
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Let us all be free
Jesus engages the disciples in their distraction and confusion—naming the way they are becoming the temptation to sin.
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The Greatest Generation is our children
In the turning point in the gospel of Mark, Jesus is confronted with Peter’s ignorance and empire’s promise of safe oppression.
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Failure, control, and empowering kids in the church
The challenge of the Passion Predictions is that they force us to confront our failure to follow Jesus, to love in the way he teaches.
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Jesus leads with love—for Proper 20B
In the second passion prediction, Jesus again upends the disciples’ expectations (and ours) for a messiah, and for his followers.
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Between Proper 19 + 20 (Year B)
Between the predictions of the Passion, Jesus confronts a moment of failure for the disciples, helping us see our lack of focus.
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Unholy Expectations
In Jesus’s first passion prediction, we encounter the language of Messiah and cross-carrying, which we need some untangling.