The story's action words tell us a lot about power and who has it.
Season after Pentecost | 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
2 Kings 4:42-44 (Psalm 145:10-18); Ephesians 3:14-21; John 6:1-21 | Semi-continuous first reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-15 (Psalm 14)
Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.
At that deserted spot on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus could've used a grocery store.
Saul, David, and the morality of power
How shrewdly the drama of mixed motives, mixed loyalties, and mixed feelings unfolds.
2 Samuel by Robert Barron
Robert Barron’s grasp of the complex development of David’s character in 2 Samuel is unsurpassed. And his references to history and literature are more than adornment.