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Jesus will always level with us (Luke 6)
Everybody always thinks about the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7), but Luke gives us the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6:7–49). In both gospels, Jesus has begun his itinerant healing and teaching in Galilee. He becomes famous and crowds begin to follow him (Matthew 4:23–25; Luke 5:15. At this point in Matthew, Jesus, seeingContinue reading “Jesus will always level with us (Luke 6)”

Reading Psalm 102 on Inauguration Day
Today is Inauguration Day in the USA, which means that something is ending and something is ending. But what is ending, and what is beginning?

Being, having, doing: theological roots of political disaster
How a weakness in recent popular evangelical theology produces a susceptibility to mythic, fascistic politics.
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