In Luke’s gospel, Jesus tells two parables about prayer one right after the other. That’s probably not an accident. Whether Jesus actually told these parable back to back or Luke puts them in this order, we should pause and wonder how each parable interprets the other. The first parable is about a widow who will […]
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She Persisted and So Should We
The word “parable” comes from the Greek words para– alongside and balo– to cast or to throw. Often we have been taught to read parables as allegory or metaphor. And sometimes they are meant to be read that way. Sometimes, they are used to provide comparisons or contrasts between the world as it is and […]
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