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Martha’s problem: What is the ‘better part’?
"Mary has chosen the better part," says Jesus, "and it will not be taken away from her." This is not what Jesus is supposed to say.
Wisconsin's fight over unions' right to exist
The fight Wisconsin's governor picked with state workers isn't about balancing the budget, and it isn't about making them pay for more of their benefits. It's about destroying unions.
Second-semester longings
I wasn't sure how many people I would find at our first weekly Eucharist
of the term. Driving was impossible, even if one mustered the will to
dig out one's car for the third time in three weeks.
What we buy and who we are
Money and what we do with it--this sounds like an
even-handed way to determine ethical standards. But in these times of supposed
transparency, I can't figure out how a nation like the United States keeps
going when it has debt in numbers beyond anyone's ability to comprehend or even
pronounce. How many zeros?
Does God love of necessity?
When we say, with the author of 1 John, that "God is Love," what do we mean by this? According to this text, if taken quite literally, it is not simply that God loves whom God chooses to love, but God's essence is love.