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Treated the same, only different
The challenge of equality is that we want equal outcomes and equal practices to achieve those outcomes. Which is impossible.
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Not Force, But Faith
While Jesus condemns the will to power, we can’t imagine a world without it. So maybe we should try harder.
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Christ, a king? (Proper 29C)
In wrestling with the image of Jesus as king above all kings, we’ve got the chance to see both the good and bad of it.
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Who wants a King? – the seduction of power
The challenge of crowning Jesus as king is that he doesn’t want the title. There’s a problem, too, with insisting it.
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Not Feeding Trolls
The phrase “don’t feed the trolls” has been around as long as many of us have used the internet. It needs an update.
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Perspective: seeing things in different ways
We love the idea of broadening our perspective. Because we know we all see things differently. We also still love being right.
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Persistence as an act of resistance
We often isolate the need to persist from the experience of oppression. But it is the demand for justice that fuels it.
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Getting into Hades (Proper 21C)
In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, we are given an illustration of what it means to serve wealth (not God).