All Posts for March, 2010

In the World

Ah. Apparently someone actually did a Dylan Eucharist...

Mar 31, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

We’ve had a lively go in the comments about the Bruce Springsteen Eucharist held recently by an Oregon church. I asked people to predict the next pop-music communion service.

Abram K-J suggested Bob Dylan:

Blogging Toward Sunday

A new dispensation

Isaiah 65:17-25; Acts 10:34-43; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18

Mar 29, 2010 by Jin S. Kim

The promise of Isaiah 65 is that God is doing a new thing: a new heaven and a new earth. In this new dispensation things are going to change big time. “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox.” No longer must one consume another to survive in this new world.

In the World

Arts & Faith's top 100 films

Mar 26, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

Arts & Faith has put together an interesting list of top 100 films. They’re also gradually adding commentary on individual selections.

In the World

It's a Bosscharist!

Mar 24, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

First there was the U2charist, in which churches invited young folks into their deepest and most mysterious ritual by building a service around the music of a 30-year-old band (that’s the band, not the members) that occasionally writes songs with vaguely spiritual themes.

Blogging Toward Sunday

A hermeneutic of trust

Luke 19:28-40

Mar 22, 2010 by Jin S. Kim

As I read about Jesus' instructions to his disciples in Luke, I think of my church's instruction of interns. We offer a program that's designed for intensive and personal discipleship training and character formation.

In the World

I'm with Stupak redux

Mar 17, 2010 by Steve Thorngate


Will Rep. Bart Stupak and his gang of anti-abortion House Democrats derail health-insurance reform?

In the World

USCCB says no

Mar 17, 2010 by Steve Thorngate

It’s official: the Catholic bishops have come out against the health-care bill.

Blogging Toward Sunday

About face

Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8

Mar 15, 2010 by David P. Gushee

In this week’s epistle reading, Paul demonstrates that mix of humility and pride that so definitively marks off his writing from any other voice in the Bible.

Century Blogs

The prodigal and the unreligious

Mar 11, 2010 by Tom Johnson

In response to the religious leaders' concern that Jesus was welcoming and associating with clearly unreligious people, Jesus told stories about God's attitude toward such wayward folk, as we find in Luke 15, from which this week's Gospel reading comes.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Home

Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Mar 08, 2010 by David P. Gushee

I puzzled over this week’s Old Testament passage for a long time. It is hard to see its connection to the other readings. But if we read this ancient story through a lens refracted by the forgiveness and celebration themes highlighted in the other lectionary texts, there are at least tentative connections.