Reflections for

Epiphany of the Lord, Jan 06, 2016

Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14; Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12

Blogging Toward Sunday

In the heavenly places

Ephesians 1:15-23

May 06, 2013 by Barbara Rossing

The preacher faces several challenges in these Ascension texts. How can we present Jesus’ departure from the earth as an occasion for not sorrow but celebration? How to translate the kingship and hierarchical language into imagery that speaks to a world no longer governed by kings and monarchs?

Feminist biblical scholars note a third challenge: How can we counter Luke-Acts' use of the Ascension to exert a degree of social control?

Century Blogs

A church-visit epiphany

Jan 10, 2013 by Steven Porter

This past Sunday was the Epiphany, the celebration of the incarnate Christ made manifest. It also happened to be the Sunday I decided to visit a congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church. 

The MCC is more theologically liberal than I am, so I braced myself for some hangups. But I also wanted to remain as open as possible to experiencing God in a different context. I’m glad I went.

In the World

Song for Epiphany

Jan 03, 2013 by Steve Thorngate

I'm back around after spending most of December away, and I'll get back to the current-events blogging directly. But first, I mentioned recently that I've been writing and home-recording a song for each liturgical season.

Blogging Toward Sunday

New light on the Epiphany

Matthew 2:1-12

Jan 02, 2013 by Gracia M. Grindal

Sometimes we grow weary of the same texts as they come up year after year. We may even suggest that maybe this year we should not do the Christmas pageant, but a different story instead.

Bad idea.

Living by the Word

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Matthew 2:1–12

Dec 26, 2012 by Gracia M. Grindal

When I was growing up in a Lutheran parsonage on the prairies of North Dakota, our congregation hosted mission festivals during Epiphany. One week our family entertained two missionaries: a missionary to Japan who’d been born in China to Lutheran missionaries but then forced out by the communists, and a missionary who’d worked in Taiwan after the closing of the bamboo curtain.

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