Why money is dangerous
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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 parable in Luke 16 is confounding. If we think Jesus is saying something different from what he normally says.
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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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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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In just a few verses, Jesus ties us in knots and turns us into our enemies.
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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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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…
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There’s a moment at the end of a night when the sounds have disappeared and conversations fade. You look around and see the stragglers are all that’s left of the party. Often ones who helped set up or planned to help clean up. Ones who wait until everyone else is gone so that the real conversation can…