If we imagine that truth is the enemy of mystery, it is only because we live in a world that insists on “knowing” in a way that is cataloguing and possessive, that insists that what is “true” is something inert, something that can be examined from all sides and seen to hold together, something that can be exhausted.
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sermon: “on Christian unity”
The unity for which Jesus prayed has nothing to do with agreement. It has nothing to do with shared language or priorities or even values, except inasmuch as our identity as a follower of Jesus Christ is totalizing.
sermon: “sleep to wake”
We all fall asleep in the middle, and we all die before the end.
sermon: “on the widow’s value”
We hold inside ourselves the impossible contrast of preciousness in a world that does not value any living thing, of righteousness imputed to us and not earned or earnable, of the hope of eternal life even as our earthly lives are shaped by hate that kills and indifference that allows the weak to die.
sermon: “if you want it”
Death is over—if we want it. Jesus is Lord even of death and has pulled its stinger out. An absurd claim then as now, yet every one of Jesus’ disciples, the first ones Mary Magdalene told, died for it. Because it was true, and because there was power in it.