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March 21, 2006

Volume 123, Issue #6

Lectionary

The life force (Ephesians 2:1-10)

As much as we might like to make the faith about spiritual enlightenment or ethical ideals or the broad love of God that inspires tolerance, the fact of the matter is that the gospel is at root a rescue story.

Name-dropping: Hebrews 5:5-10

It is not pain and violence that God desires, says the preacher of Hebrews. It is human life as God created it to be, summoned it to be.

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