Make Saints

When we hear "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return," we are being invited to seeing things as they really are. Not as we think they are.

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Back from a break to tackle an easy topic: racism. As in what we think we mean when we talk about racism. And what our public conversations are missing.

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In this episode of Make Saints, we tackle the twelve. As in disciples. What's with the number? And what to make of Judas.

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In this episode of Make Saints, we tackle the two worlds of Christmas: the sacred and the secular: and why it is all one.

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Our vision of peace is backward. We treat is like it is only a concept; and not something we can actually make.

For more information about the observer effect, I found this summary useful.

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Joy – this shouldn’t be a hard thing to talk about. But strangely it is. And I want to change that.

But first, let’s work through why joy, joy is what it is.

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There’s something about this time of year.

There are two features of this season that we can’t help but exhibit: anticipation and preparation.

We’re all waiting and watching for Christmas. It is coming soon. We want to get ready for it. So we prepare by getting gifts and making things to decorate or give away.

These are really natural parts of the season. Not of the season of Christmas, actually. But the season of Advent: the season before that famous season.

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Or, if you want to learn more about Advent, check out this homily.

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These days, celebrating Thanksgiving is pretty meta.

The holiday is supposed to be about giving thanks as the Pilgrims did that one time with a grand feast of local cuisine with the indigenous people who lived there. Of course, the myth is certainly rosier than the truth. And we know that makes the celebration a bit uncomfortable.

So we shift our attention to the more general concept of thankfulness.

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A Special Message

I know you have thoughts about the young man who shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin. We all do. And, in a sense, that’s all our culture offers us right now: thoughts. Disparate, unconnected, intemperate thoughts.

Let's make some sense of the confusing thing that happened on Friday.


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There are three distinct visions of what an apocalypse is.

One is the popular understanding of apocalypse, which is best understood today by watching disaster movies. We can see that, to Hollywood, apocalypse is about all the things that blow up and how our time on this world will end.

A second vision of apocalypse comes to us from a certain corner of Christianity that preaches extensively about what they call “the end times”. They are most interested in getting very particular about how the world will end and who will be saved from imminent death by the grace of God.

The third vision of apocalypse is much older than Hollywood and rapture theology. And in this vision, we don’t focus on the destruction of a particular moment of the world ending. Because there isn’t one apocalypse.

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