sin
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Jesus offers a pattern for working toward reconciliation that is deceptively simple. He invites us to keep striving for reconciliation.
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Jesus hangs out with sinners, heals a woman, and raises someone from the dead. Here’s why that frustrates the people we should pay less attention to.
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Jesus undermines the prohibition of relationship between the ritually pure and the condemned because grace is more important.
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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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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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There is both sin and grace at the heart of the church’s tradition of Good Friday. Our first task is acknowledging this truth.