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Living the Dream
In our rush to live in a just world, we may find ourselves preventing the very means of making things just — that we are called to this.
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How our limited imagination gets stuck on taxes
When asked about the Law and paying taxes, Jesus gives a response many are far too eager to see as supporting separation.
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The Idol Separation of Powers—for Proper 24A
In our reflection for this Sunday, we examine what it is we want this gospel to do and why. And why this misses Jesus’s mark for us.
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Between Proper 23 + 24 (Year A)
The passage we are moving into is so often taken for a story of binaries, separation, and articulation, but the question is filled with dishonesty.
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What goes to the emperor?
We forget the question of taxes is a trap. And Jesus’s answer isn’t a solution to modern society. It is, however, essential.
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Faces of Love
In Matthew 22:15-22, we get stuck on the words “Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s” we forget the whole thing’s a trap. Proper 24A | Matthew 22:15-22 I don’t know if any of you have been outside in…you know…the last few years…but there are people really concerned with the mixing…
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Rejecting the Trap
The dishonesty behind asking compromises any answer Jesus may have to the question a Homily for Proper 24A | Text: Matthew 22:15-22 The Trap This is not a story about taxes. This is a story about a trap that backfires. A trap set to deal with authority. And every time we go near the question of…
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Beyond Empire: giving to the emperor
Today’s gospel: Matthew 22:15-22 This is one of my favorite moments for Jesus. He has just been hammering at the Jewish leadership and attacking the relationship between the religious leaders and the empire. He chased the moneychangers and now they have all had enough. They’re coming to get him. So they bring a trap. A…