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Rise—when The End isn’t the end
As people of the resurrection, we can both love the concept and also refuse to accept that it has anything to do with our lives.
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Between Pentecost and Trinity Sunday
Moving from Pentecost to Trinity Sunday means, once again, switching gospels. To one with some valuable context.
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Dust, dirt, soil
The ashes we use in Lent, to remember our place, are not generic. It isn’t proverbial. It is about our life and death.
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So many husbands (Proper 27C)
The famous question from the Sadducees to Jesus about the resurrection is particularly haunting to modern Christians.
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Share the Love
The thing about faith is that we don’t just want to be better. We want to want to be better. And that is where the magic is.
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From the Wrong Place
The empty tomb reveals both the joy and fear of new things: and our tendency to assume what our faith tells us not to.
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Jesus is more than the resurrection
The one thing people know about Jesus is that he died and then came back. One minute he became dead. Then he wasn’t. Christians throughout history have made a big thing out of this. I mean, it is a pretty awesome story. But I think, in a sense, we’ve overstated it. We act like the…