Changing together (Luke 12:49-56; Jeremiah 23:23-29)

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In my Living by the Word column for this Sunday, I look at the way that many of us mainline Christians take it as a given that Jesus’ notion of peace might disrupt the world’s settled systems—sometimes without thinking about how our own practices might be “divided against” our stated beliefs.