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Blind spots.

Publication: The Christian Century
Publication Date: 18-OCT-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Blind spots.(Living by the Word)

Article Excerpt
EVEN THE COMMON lectionary cannot hold ecumenical friends together this Sunday. Some of us will depart from the scripture texts and focus on the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. Some of us will center on the Mark 10 story of Jesus' encounter with Bartimaeus. I want to acknowledge these different directions, and also reflect on the thematic connection between Bartimaeus's blindness and our history of reformation.

Healing stories in the Gospels never seem to he simply a reversal of physical misfortune. A paralyzed man stands and walks. A man stretches out a withered hand to Jesus and sees it become useful again. A girl who was pronounced dead awakens. Particularly suspicious are the stories of those who "once were blind, but now they see." The connections between seeing and believing are so strong in the Gospel accounts...

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