Looking into the lectionary August 7, 2016 – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 12:32-40 Ordinary 19C; Proper 14 To fear or not to fear. That seems to be the question. Political speeches on all..
Looking into the lectionary July 31, 2016 – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 12:13-21 Ordinary 18C; Proper 13 I like big barns and I cannot lie. It is difficult, I would suggest, to live..
Looking into the lectionary July 24, 2016 – 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Hosea 1:2-10; Luke 11:1-13 Ordinary 17C; Proper 12 There are times when the “not appropriate for children” parts of the Bible come..
Looking into the lectionary July 17, 2016 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Colossians 1:15-28; Luke 10:38-42 Proper 11; Ordinary 16C Be like Mary, not Martha, so goes the often repeated, simplistic lesson from this..
Looking into the lectionary July 10, 2016 – 8th Sunday after Pentecost Luke 10:25-37 Proper 10; Ordinary 15C The walking dead. That’s who the priest and the Levite are in this text. The man..
Hymns To a Place of Celebration (A hymn for Orlando) Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a new hymn for churches in response to the Orlando shootings. She hopes the hymn will be..
Prayers for the moment Each loss irreparable: How long will we lament? (A prayer for Orlando) The scenes look hauntingly similar: devastated faces of survivors as they huddle together, clamoring for caring contact, their hands over their mouths,..
Looking into the lectionary June 12, 2016 – 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kings 21:1-21a; Luke 7:36-8:3 Proper 6; Ordinary 11C The prayer book I use most mornings has the following sentence as part..
Looking into the lectionary June 5, 2016 – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 17:8-16 (17-24); Galatians 1:11-24; Luke 7:11-17 “Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?”..
Looking into the lectionary May 29, 2016 – 2nd Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 18:20-21 (22-29) 30-39; Galatians 1:1-12; Luke 7:1-10 “How long will you go limping along with two different opinions?” How could..