Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year C, RCL)
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Liberated and vulnerable (Acts 16:16-34)
Like the characters in Acts 16, we are imprisoned to power structures.
June 1, Easter 7 (John 17:20-26)
The question of unity always raises another question: On whose terms?
My evangelical feminist friend Letha
There is no greater evidence of how much Letha Dawson Scanzoni valued relationships than her letters.
August 20, Ordinary 20A (Genesis 45:1–15; Psalm 133)
The challenges to unity are great. The reward of unity is tremendous.
Patching up the text (Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21)
The reading from Revelation skips over lines that will likely put off many hearers.
May 29, Easter 7C (Acts 16:16-34; John 17:20-26)
I want to know why grace was extended to the Philippian jailer but not the slave.
Living between the Bible’s first and last prayers
Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”
Considering the trees on Ash Wednesday
Each tree in my neighborhood is the tree of life.
Communion with Christ—and others (John 17:20-26)
“Being in Jesus” is John’s theological language to describe a state of communion essential for our faith.
June 2, Easter 7C (John 17:20-26)
Jesus wants us all around the table. That can be really, really hard.
The Bible in (liturgical) context
One of the gifts of the lectionary is that a biblical text wears different vestments depending on when it shows up for Christian worship.
May 8, Easter 7C (Acts 16:16-34; Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21; John 17:20-26)
The reading from Revelation 22 concludes the book’s resurrection songs: the baptized enjoy the fruits of the tree of life. But the tree is not merely one of the countless archetypal trees that religions and cultures everywhere have imagined.
God in ordinary words: How the Bible speaks of the divine
The Bible's images for God must be taken in an analogical sense. Yet the Bible exhibits no anxiety about using them.