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Persistent blessings
If you are following Track 2, you may be interested in the experience of Jacob, who wrestled a blessing from God: May your prayers be heard without harm, and the intercession of your heart received with gentleness. Otherwise, from … Continue reading
Year A Proper 20: Jonah and anti-Jonah
Poor, petulant Jonah. If he couldn’t give the Ninevites hell, he wanted to at least give them purgatory. I’ve done all of this work, he said, endured all of this drama: the running away the wailing and gnashing of teeth, … Continue reading
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Tagged fair pay, God, Jesus, Jonah, justice, living wage, love, mercy, minimum wage, Nineveh, parable
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Year C Lent 3: manure and mercy
The thing about a parable is that it can be read from many different angles, with different results. Like those silhouetted pictures that can be a vase or a pair of faces, depending on where you place your focus, or … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Eugene Peterson, fig tree, Jonah, Luke 13:1-9, manure, mercy, parable, punishment, repentance, Sodom and Gomorrah, test the Lord your God
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