Immigration, Illegality, and Mercy
This week’s lectionary gospel (Luke 13:10-17) shows, along with other healing stories, how Jesus taught mercy over concerns like being correct, or keeping laws, or being “righteous.” To Jesus, the freedom and relief of the woman he illegally healed on the Sabbath—a woman trapped in suffering for eighteen years—ranked so…
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