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Taking Scripture Seriously
May 31, 2018
Second Sunday After PentecostMark 2:23-3:6 Is Scripture the whip of the oppressor or the hope of the oppressed? At my…
Wrestling with Assumptions
October 26, 2017
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Matthew 22:34-46 When I first read the texts for this week, I began salivating…
An Astonishing Thing!
March 24, 2017
Fourth Sunday in Lent 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9: 1-41 There were things I learned in my theological…
More Righteous than the Scribes and Pharisees
January 31, 2017
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 58:1-12 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 Matthew 5:13-20 In a world where…
Proper 21: Not Enough For Everyone’s Greed
September 23, 2010
Amos 6:1, 4-7; Ps 146; 1 Tim 6:11-16; Lk 16:19-31 When I read passages like those in this week’s lectionary…