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Liberated to Love
Christian tradition has a troubled past with purity, making it another thing to adhere to rather than a matter of love and grace.
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Abuse of Tradition
The thing about claiming tradition is that it is precisely that: a claim. That doesn’t make it real, right, or true. We’re for the status quo.
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Pure and good—for Proper 17B
How Jesus speaks to his interlocutors in this gospel can be troubling or exciting, but our focus must be what he is teaching his followers.
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Between Proper 16 + 17 (Year B)
What were we up to before we spent all that time in a a different gospel? Here’s a recap of what we may have forgotten and where we’re going.
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Jesus learns from his own experience
These two healing stories aren’t just about healing. They show Jesus expanding the circle of wholeness beyond his own expectations.
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Not Me. Us.
Jesus reorients us so we can see just how far we are from where we’re supposed to be headed. And that means changing focus.
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What God Intends
In Mark 7, Jesus responds to a challenge over rule-breaking by exposing their hypocrisy. Is this just a takedown, or is he saying something else? The challenge of following Jesus isn’t doing or believing. It’s both. Proper 17B | Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 We have to go back nearly two months. Back in June, we…
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Breaking the rules with Jesus
We are so much like the Pharisees. We really are. We focus on the rules, not their purpose or how they encourage us to build strong relationships with GOD, one another, and the wider community. That is their purpose: those relationships. The rules are supposed to lead us to GOD. But we rather stay where we’re at…