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Reading: Luke 17:12-19 (link) Oops! In the December 2024 issue of The New Yorker, we were introduced to a man by the name of Chandra Bhan Prasad (link). As you can tell from his name, he is Indian by birth.

We usually miss it, but the story of Jesus’s birth is profoundly political.

We, too, are called to bear Christ into the world in our unique way.

If we can accept that God accepts us, we might just begin to see ourselves as God sees us.

How can something be right in front of you yet be so hidden?

Christ is only legalistic about abolishing the law that binds us and causes our backs to be stiff.

Society says that we shouldn’t put forks in light sockets, but maybe we should?

Sunday of the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council Oops! Who here loves to be manipulated? Anyone? As I imagined, no one here chose to be manipulated. Yet, if you can believe it, we are manipulated … every … single

When we see our relationship with Jesus as transactional, he becomes a magical genie.

I wonder: Do we have the guts to be Christians? I mean real Christians, like the apostles or the martyrs.