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On Not Reading it Wrong — choosing God over money
Some of Jesus’s parables can be confusing to modern readers, expecting something that looks like God rather than the opposition.
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Within a decent community — for Proper 20C
The parable of the dishonest manager invites us to think about our own behavior for sure. But it is just as much about our community.
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Why money is dangerous
The parable in Luke 16 is confounding. If we think Jesus is saying something different from what he normally says.
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The Rich Man, Manager, God, and Wealth (Proper 20C)
In this week’s gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who is going to fire a manager. Of course there’s more to it.
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Complexity and Clarity
In Jesus’s teaching for Proper 20C, we get a vision of complexity that leads to clarity. It isn’t one or the other.
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Between: those Lovers of Money
In just a few verses, Jesus ties us in knots and turns us into our enemies.
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Bad Economics
Jesus keeps teaching us about the limits of transactional thinking — and the life-giving beauty of sacrifice in his way of love.
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Between: the Parable of the Prodigal Son(s)
A look at the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Proper 19C and Proper 20C. The text: Luke 15:11-32. You know this story. Even if you’ve never read it, you know it. It’s in your bones and in your imagination. Artists have mused with it. Writers have cribbed from it. Filmmakers have…