Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.
Season after Pentecost | 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; (Isaiah 58:9b-14; Psalm 103:1-8;) Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17
Self-realization is possible only in relation to a reality beyond the self.
Jesus points out ways in which the line has already been dissolved.
The unnamed woman’s healing in this week’s Gospel reading is a story of expansion, revelation, vision widened by grace. There’s more to the story, however.
"Remember the sabbath" is a costly commandment. Our culture’s assault on it extends far beyond Sunday.
People are rightly disgusted by buildings with separate entrances for low-income residents. But churches have side-door people, too.