All Posts for October, 2009

Blogging Toward Sunday

Saints with and without halos

Isaiah 25:6-9; Revelation 21:1-6a; John 11:32-44

Oct 26, 2009 by Phyllis Kersten

It is impossible, I believe, to have another All Saints Day come and go without recalling and giving thanks for those saints without halos—family members, mentors and friends—who were gifts of God to us and who now worship before the throne. Perhaps the first thing to do on All Saints Day is to remember them and give thanks to God for their presence in our lives.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Flaws and calls and healing

Job 42:1-6, 10-17; Hebrews 7:23-28; Mark 10:46-52

Oct 19, 2009 by Phyllis Kersten

A friend heard I was writing about blind Bartimaeus and asked me a question: “Where do call and healing meet? How do they intersect?” Since I didn’t really know the answer, I preferred to think of her question as rhetorical.

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.

On the Shelf

A review of Everyday Justice

Oct 08, 2009 by Robert Cornwall
Every decision we make is an ethical decision, which forces us to choose whether we will act out of love or end up denying th
Blogging Toward Sunday

Still blogging toward Sunday

Another take on Mark 10:17-31

Oct 07, 2009 by A. Katherine Grieb

Today, a bonus lectionary post—because preaching on Jesus and the rich man takes all the help you can get. —Ed.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Our hearts laid bare

Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31

Oct 05, 2009 by Paul J. Wadell

This week’s epistle reading ends by exhorting us to “approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” That’s exactly what the young man in the Gospel story does: he boldly approaches the throne o