Plowshares into Swords?
November 21, 2011
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The prophet Joel takes a treasured image from both Isaiah and Micah and reverses it.
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Prickly dance of reconciliation
November 20, 2011
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The two parties walk around each other with a cautious shyness, each afraid of the other’s prickly barbs, both desiring to be closer, but not knowing how in the world to accomplish it without being stuck themselves.
A challenge from Paul
November 19, 2011
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(Epistle from the Commemoration of Elizabeth of Hungary) Now as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in utmost eagerness, and in our
Pointed Connections
November 18, 2011
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I once heard Andrew say that humans are the only animals who will look toward the direction that someone points rather than looking at the finger doing the pointing.
Koinonia and freedom
November 17, 2011
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What would it mean instead to create serious community, modeled on the egalitarian life within the Godhead? What would it mean, in other words, if we modeled our koinonia on the koinonia that pulses forever among the Three?
Paying Taxes
November 16, 2011
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The early church walked a fine line between its declaration of challenge to the Roman Empire — the fundamental creed “Jesus is Lord” defies the claim that “Caesar is Lord” — and the church’s wish to avoid active persecution. From Matthew’s perspective, paying the hated tax to the Jupiter temple was not a place to draw a line.
Where is that line?
God’s Passion for Justice
November 15, 2011
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Justice is at the heart of the vision of God’s reign. God is love. Justice is the social form of love.
Violence and Transfiguration
November 14, 2011
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Beyond the cross of Jesus and the beheading of John there is the insistence that the deeper reality is the dazzling vision of transfiguration.
Creating sapphires from sewage
November 13, 2011
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… what we learn from our foray into the sewage is we can have a surprising diligence about dealing with other people’s money for our gain, we have an ability to avert our eyes from wrongdoing, and we can keep our mouths shut if we are getting a deal.
Feed my sheep
November 12, 2011
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When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?’ He said to him,
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