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Do you remember when Jesus asked his disciples if his teaching offended them and many of them turned back and no longer followed him?  It was because of tragicomic hope. In John 6 Jesus fed the five thousand and then snuck away in the middle of the night.  When the crowd found him again he…

Paul said that he was not ashamed of the gospel.  (Romans 1.16)  At first, it sounds so admirable but why would he be ashamed of the gospel?  Who would be ashamed of good news unless there was something about it that was a little odd.  Simply put, the gospel is a cosmic comedic tragedy. >>>”The…

“The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism.”  Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright’s Blues

A little over a week ago I gathered my children around the table and said, "You’re not going to believe what happened last night, Jesus lost a foot,  a hand and one of his arms!"  They were predictably shocked. West of Denver, at the edge of the foothills, is the Mother Cabrini Shrine.  It is…
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