"Thus the tension in the Gospels is not between Jesus and 'the Jews.' The tension is between Jesus the Galilean hillbilly proclaimer of the coming of God's Kingdom of non-violent justice and the Judean snobbish elites who are also collaborators of the Roman Empire of violent non-justice."
Year B, Season of Pentecost
Reign of Christ Sunday
Proper 29, Ordinary Time 34
Sunday Between November 20 and November 26 Inclusive
Final Sunday of Pentecost Season
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Here we are, already filled with anticipation of celebrating the impossible possibility+ of the birth of one who is fully-God-and-fully-human, but before that happens, we are now called to ponder the impossible possibility of a world order that is fully-Sovereign-and-fully-Servant / fully-of-this-world-and-fully-not-of-this-world / fully-already-accomplished-and-fully-not-yet-complete / fully-powerful-and-fully-non-coercive / fully-judging-and-fully-merciful.
Blessed be the preacher who is able to stand fully in this tension and not resolve it.
