Reflections for

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug 30, 2015

Song of Solomon 2:8-13; Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9; (Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9; Psalm 15;) James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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Song of Solomon 2:8-13; James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Aug 24, 2009 by Thomas G. Long

“Be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves” is the kind of statement that drove Luther up a wall.

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Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Aug 22, 2006 by Cynthia M. Campbell

Have you ever been in a conversation in which it seemed that you and another person were not talking about the same thing even though you were arguing about it strenuously? Something like that is going on in Mark. Jesus and the Pharisees are in conflict with one another but not necessarily about the same things and certainly not on the same terms.

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Singing of sex

Rereading the Song of Songs

Jan 27, 2004 by Anthony B. Robinson

Some exegetes and preachers have tried to persuade us that the Song of Songs is an elaborate allegory about the love of God for Israel or of Christ for the church. Yes, the book may have something to teach us about the divine-human relationship, but it is also, and without doubt, a song of erotic love. It is sensual, playful, beautiful and filled with longing.

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Pharisees are us

Mark 7:1-8, 21-23

Aug 23, 2003 by John Ortberg

I grew up in an era before video, Veggie Tales or Bible-based computer games. I was raised, at least in terms of religious education, on the flannelgraph. To this day, although I know that the scriptures are peopled with characters of texture and nuance, I think of Bible people and see pastel paper figures pressed on a felt board.

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Matters of the heart

Sunday, September 3

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Aug 16, 2000 by Heidi Husted

"There is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile a person.” Or as Eugene Peterson translates it, “It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life.” I’m tempted to disagree. A few months ago I visited Senegal, West Africa. I spent the entire six-hour return flight from Dakar to Paris in the airplane bathroom.

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