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They subverted conventional ways of seeing life and God. They undermined a “world,” meaning a taken-for-granted way of seeing “the way things are.” Jesus’s parables invited his hearers into a different way of seeing how things are and how we might live. As invitations to see differently, they were subversive. Indeed, perhaps seeing differently is the foundation of subversion.
The First Christmas
Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
in the kind of voice that could knit a teddy bear,
Eggshells
Caitriona Lally
Alcohol is a drug that reshapes the drinker according to the contours of his immediate environment.
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
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