–31 and look at some of Jesus’ most challenging teachings. The ones that really make you think about how difficult it would be to let go of wealth, privilege, and certainty in order to follow a more expansive, justice-centered vision of love. There is often a tendency to explain away hard passages about money while taking other scriptures literally. But is that what was intended in this passage? We also explore complicated ideas about eternal life, moving beyond rigid, afterlife-focused theology to consider how “eternal life” might be experienced here and nowin moments of connection, vulnerability, and collective care that draw us into something bigger than ourselves. Those rituals that connect us outside or inside church and really make us feel part of a community. If we can reimagine a faith rooted in embodied justice and shared humanity, one that ultimately calls us deeper into love, what a more expansive faith that is.

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