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The day's news turned on institutions reshaping themselves: a military office created to tend soldiers' spiritual health, a bishop preparing to step down, and a cluster of Anglican governance news.
Four men cut a hole in a roof, and Mark says Jesus saw their faith, which tells us what faith looks like from where he stands.
A Monday prayer for faith that shows itself in what we do.
James asks what good it is to wish a hungry brother well and give him nothing, and the question has not lost its edge.
James argues that favoritism toward the rich is not just unkind but irrational, because God has chosen the poor.
Praying the father's words as our own
Romans 4 reads Genesis 15 and finds in it the whole logic of justification by faith.
The man who left everything for God tells a half-truth to save his skin, and God rescues him anyway.
Mark says Jesus saw their faith, and the pronoun is worth a Sunday's reflection.
