22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)

Song of Songs is a forgotten book, hidden away between pragmatic Ecclesiastes and monumental Isaiah, but if you look, you’ll find it, shining with summer’s golden light.

Mark's story is about the irony of keeping our hands ritually washed while being up to our elbows in evil.

The Pharisees are usually viewed as simply majoring in minutiae. But that does a disservice to them and obscures the issues.

Jesus is not accusing the Pharisees of an early form of Pelagianism.