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To Be Free We Must Give Up on Violence
The prophetic voices of Isaiah and John the Baptist reveal the limits of our obsession with power against the boundless purifying love of Jesus.
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No Easy Faith
Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.
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Turning the Page
The Baptism of Our Lord gives us a chance to see the power of new beginnings—at a time when we are open to them.
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Life, death, and me; or am I SOL if I kill somebody?
Many of us are taught that God loves us no matter what. Then hear how God hates us and wants us dead. Something seems to get lost in the translation.
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I’m Reevaluating the Cross
After listening to Tony Jones speak about his new book, Did God Kill Jesus on Homebrewed Christianity, I found myself being pushed into new territory in my faith. Partly because I probably am one of those progressive Christians who wants to sanitize the faith and take the blood out of it. I think there’s more…
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Climbing Higher
a homily for Proper 26C Text: Luke 19:1-10 It so often feels that gospels about money are tricky during Stewardship Season like this. We already hate to talk about money. Bringing up economics in a homily is a tricky enough proposition during the rest of the year. It sometimes feels as if the preacher is…
