Tag: Lectionary Reflections

  • October 3, 2024
    Proper 22 BJob 1:1, 2:1-10As a priest in the upper eastern region of Tennessee, 30 miles from the devastation wrought…

  • September 26, 2024
    Esther 7:1-6, 9-10 and 9:20-22 James 5:13-20Mark 9:38-50Proper 21 BThose of us in the United States are starting to find…

  • September 17, 2024
    Proper 20 BMark 9:30-37 James 3:13-4:8 I went back and read a meditation I gave almost two decades ago on this week’s…

  • September 10, 2024
    Proper 20Sept. 15 2024Mark 8:27-38“There is One among us, whom we do not know;Host of highest heaven, present here below.”This…

  • September 3, 2024
    Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23Psalm 125James 2:1-10, 14-17Mark 7:24-37Proper 18BMary has been attending the church I serve for about 30 years.…

  • August 28, 2024
    Proper 17BSept 1 2024Mark 7:1-23In an era of unbridled political turmoil and unhealed ecclesial division, can a public fight ever…

  • August 19, 2024
    1 Kings 8:22-30, 41-43; Psalm 84; John 6:56-69“On Buildings and Bread and Blood”August 25, 2024Our family just returned from visits in Morocco…

  • August 12, 2024
    Daniel Rentfro Jr.John 6:51-58Thirteenth Sunday After PentecostAug 18 2024“We Are What We Eat”Few metaphors are more common than those that…

  • August 7, 2024
    Twelfth Sunday After PentecostAndrew SheppardJohn 6:35, 41-51Much has rightly been made about the familiarity of the kinds of images and…

  • July 31, 2024
    Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost2 Samuel 11:26-12:13aEphesians 4:1-16John 6:24-35The poem “God’s Grandeur,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, has always been one of…