20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, RCL)

How do we determine and define what is pure and wholesome?

Christians of good heart and good faith sincerely disagree about whether or how biblical passages regarding homosexual behavior relate to the current debates. Exegesis is not solving the problem.
What to do? One way is to seek help from a parallel situation in the Bible, like the one Israel faced following the exile. The question was how to reconstitute the nation. With its institutions shattered, how would Israel move forward?

A kneeling woman does not have far to fall, and by all rights Jesus' insult should have floored her on the spot.

How do the blessed feel when they think of the damned?

Keeping score and getting even—that’s what enemies do.