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Between – the Transfiguration and the Temptation
As we prepare for Lent, the lectionary will have us jump back to Matthew 4, for the temptation: which reverberates everywhere.
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The Right Thing
We are always obsessed with figuring out what the right thing to do is in any given situation. When a person is killed by police, that right thing becomes even more fraught. When the killing looks like murder and we can see it with our own eyes? Well…you get it. We want to know what…
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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.