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Suspicion is a poison. The movies we make up in our minds about what’s happening around us—about relationships, about motives, about intent—so often end up being traps. Perhaps John and the other disciples had a similar experience in today’s gospel.
Not about the theft of personal property, but the theft of Jesus’ name and power. When they come across a man casting out demons in Jesus' name, a man they do not know, they immediately they’d grown suspicious.

Isabel Wilkerson, author of CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENT, shares a personal story of what if feels like to be the target of suspicion. When it comes to determining WHO’S IN and WHO’S OUT; WHO’S ON THE RIGHT SIDE and WHO’S ON THE WRONG SIDE in America, race and caste play outsized roles. What's the antidote? Being apprenticed to Christ means acknowledging the forces within ourselves and within our society that would keep us blind to age-old patterns for excluding others from the gifts of the gospel.