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Oct 01, 2014

Volume 131, Issue #20

Lectionary

Sunday, October 12, 2014

The story of the golden calf is a parody of Israelite idolatry.

Sunday, October 5, 2014: Isaiah 5:1-7; Matthew 21:33­-46

Jesus' parable of the so-called "wicked tenant farmers" is a textbook illustration—a parody, even—of the economic and political dynamics of empire.

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