Proper 24A
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Living the Dream
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8 min read
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
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5 min read
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
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3 min read
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)
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2 min read
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?
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8 min read
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
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8 min read
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…