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Without Sin — the implicit bias that clouds our judgment
When people ask Jesus for a hot take on a recent scandal, he interrogates their assumption that the victims brought it on themselves.
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This is not the Way of Love
The challenge Jesus offers us is to look past our assumptions about sin and tragedy and instead toward what we do to each other.
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We’re in this together—for Lent 3C
The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.
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Are we too obsessive? Yes. Yes we are.
We’re conflicted by the thought that God is responsible and also so are we, making it about our own obsessions with getting it right.
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At that very time
Jesus challenges us to see beyond asking why things happen and toward what we are called to do in light of it.
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Good and Bad Things
Sometimes we struggle with the gospel because the story we tell ourselves is so strong. And we forget it is there.
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God doesn’t want you to sell your brother into slavery
When Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery, we may be tempted to think God wanted them to. What God wants is for us to change.
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Divine Suffering
Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted. Tempted with power, understanding, everything he could desire. Everything we desire.