Called Daughter

This week, we sit with Matthew 9:9-13, 18-22: Jesus calling Matthew from the tax booth, eating with the people respectable religion avoided, and turning toward a bleeding woman who reaches for the fringe of his cloak. The first Sunday after Pentecost opens the long green season with a question the Church keeps having to face: when holiness and mercy seem to pull in different directions, which one looks more like Jesus? For Pride month, this episode begins a more personal arc about reception, belonging, and the grace of being called by your own name after years of being treated as someone else’s problem. It is a reflection on the table, the touch, the hand that does not step back, and the God of Love who moves toward the person the system has already written off. You are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe