Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! This week, we enter the part of the lectionary season that I struggle with the most. If we were reading the gospel straight through, we’d know that, since last Sunday, Jesus has entered Jerusalem. He has shamed Temple leaders and disrupted the Temple’s commerce. …
A Word: Liberating Economics
In the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, Jesus offers us a chance to look at our relationships completely differently: with generosity. the restorative love of Jesus in actionProper 20A | Matthew 20:1-16 This parable may be the most fascinating of Jesus’s teachings. And most people …
Right or Fair?
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! This week’s gospel confronts how we approach the very ordering of our world. And while that could be said of literally any other passage in scripture, there’s a particular reason this one is so biting. Money. Jesus confronts us about money. And this reveals …