All Posts for February, 2009

In the World

Giving up blogging for Lent

Feb 27, 2009 by Steve Thorngate

I've decided to give up blogging for Lent this year. Not blogs themselves so much as "blogging"—let me explain.

Blogging Toward Sunday

After the flood

Genesis 9:8-17; Mark 1:9-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22

Feb 23, 2009 by Kenneth H. Carter Jr.

While I know better than to try too hard to harmonize the lectionary's different texts, today's readings strike me as having an undeniable relationship.

In the World

Labeling Christians

Feb 20, 2009 by Steve Thorngate

Putting labels on people is always a loaded thing, and putting labels on Christians is no exception. What exactly does "evangelical" mean, for example, and who gets to decide?

Blogging Toward Sunday

Blogging toward WEDNESDAY: A desert in the oasis

Ash Wednesday: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Feb 19, 2009 by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Our Lent lectionary blogging will consist of individual posts by a variety of contributors.

Blogging Toward Sunday

An enlarged and narrowed soul

2 Kings 2:1-12; Mark 9:2-9; 2 Corinthians 4:2-6

Feb 16, 2009 by Thomas R. Steagald
O Lord, the house of my soul is narrow; enlarge it that thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous, O repair it! It displeases thy sight; I confess it, I know. But who shall cleanse it, or to whom shall I cry but thee? Cleanse me from my secret faults, O Lord, and spare thy servant from strange sins. --St.
Blogging Toward Sunday

Jesus gets mad

2 Kings 5:1-14; Mark 1:40-45; I Corinthians 9:24-27

Feb 09, 2009 by Thomas R. Steagald

Years ago I read an article in Interpretation that forever changed my understanding of this gospel passage. The writer focused on the alternate reading in verse 41—a reading so alternate that some Bibles don't even list it in the footnotes. Here's the question: what did Jesus feel as he healed the leper?

Blogging Toward Sunday

All things to all people

Isaiah 40:21-31; Mark 1:29-39; I Corinthians 9:16-23

Feb 02, 2009 by Thomas R. Steagald

I'd like to have words with Paul about his pastoral strategy in this week's epistle lesson. "I have become all things to all people." Oh, really? These words feed my insecurities and neuroses. And they inform, more than I wish, my job description and annual evaluation.