choosing God over money
Proper 20C | Luke 16:1-13
You know, sometimes Jesus tells a story that leaves a person scratching their head. What does that mean? Or, as in this case, does he really mean what I think he means?
The problem for the astute reader is figuring out, not just what to make of it, but in what way we are supposed to read this story. I mean that in quite literal terms. Like, what is the methodology of reading the assigned gospel for today?
I’m focused on this idea at the moment because it is part of a critical essay I’m working on about humor. It was inspired by an essay by David Foster Wallace about why he stopped trying to teach college students about why Franz Kafka is funny. That these stories by this long-dead German writer, which often deal with the twisted and the macabre are also quite funny. But Wallace kept finding his students struggled to see the humor. And, for years, he saw it as his mission to help them see it.
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