Reflections for

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct 18, 2015

Job 38:1-7, (34-41); Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c; (Isaiah 53:4-12; Psalm 91:9-16;) Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45

Features

Wisdom and light

John's prologue as midrash

Apr 09, 2012 by Marilynne Robinson

Is John 1 a midrash on the creation story and the song of creative Wisdom? If so, its writer has infused it with profoundest joy.

Cover Story

Water in worship

The ecology of baptism

Jan 28, 2011 by Benjamin M. Stewart

There is quite a gap between the wilderness-pilgrimage baptisms of John and the small and hidden baptismal places in many of our worship spaces. Happily, this is changing.

Blogging Toward Sunday

A scandalous life

Job 38:1-7; Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45

Oct 12, 2009 by Paul J. Wadell

Americans love a good scandal. We’re mesmerized by the salacious details of celebrities’ lives, by politicians trapped in webs of greed and infidelity and by clergy gone astray. Maybe we’re drawn to the titillating lapses and scurrilous misdeeds of the powerful because we delight in seeing the mighty fall or the hypocrisies of the arrogant exposed.

Living by the Word

Heroic ambition

Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45

Oct 06, 2009 by Paul J. Wadell

I want the best for my students. That’s why I love talking to them about the virtue of magnanimity and its corresponding vice of pusillanimity, a word that is hard to spell and even harder to pronounce, but important to understand. Magnanimous people consistently set their sights high. In everything they do, they aspire to what is best.

Living by the Word

Sons of Entitlement

Mark 10:35-45

Oct 17, 2006 by Stephen B. Chapman

James and John McZebedee matriculated at my seminary again this fall. The “Sons of Entitlement,” I call them. They are usually—but not always—young and white in addition to being male. They have typically grown up in the church, attended Christian colleges and majored in religion. They like to refer to their mental index of Theologians Worth Reading and readily scoff at those theologians they have not read (and so are not worth reading).

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