24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)
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Trauma at the tomb
I understand why Mark’s editors added to his ending. Still, I wish they hadn’t.
The poverty of gossip
It’s not just that it’s sadistic. It also lacks aesthetic or psychological imagination.
The heft of a pulpit Bible
As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.
April 13, Passion C (Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 31:9-16; Luke 23:1-49)
What do we do with our powerlessness?
A preacher’s (well-bridled) tongue (James 3:1-12)
When is a pastor obliged to speak about their own theological shifts? Or obliged not to?
September 15, Ordinary 24B (James 3:1–12)
As a preacher, I used to worry that people don’t listen to me. Now I worry that they do.
A lament psalm without lament (Psalm 22:23-31; Mark 8:31-38)
Lament psalms typically move to trust at some point, but reading only those verses feels strange in Lent.
February 25, Lent 2B (Mark 8:31–38)
What a roller coaster for the disciples: They are following the Messiah! And doing so will cost them everything.
A rich woman who took the Magnificat seriously
Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.
The Psalm 19 test (Psalm 19)
How do we wade through the vast morass of different teachings and beliefs about the God of the Bible?
October 8, Ordinary 27A (Exodus 20:1–4, 7–9, 12–20)
In an uncertain, murky time, God gives the people a gift: ten laws.
January 23, Epiphany 3 (Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21)
The word of God is living and active; it meets us where we are.
October 10, Ordinary 28B (Hebrews 4:12-16)
The purpose of the word of God is not to make us feel condemnable, but to help us see what is commendable.
September 12, Ordinary 24B (Mark 8:27–38)
The cross we choose to bear reveals who we think Jesus is.
A life that matters (Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Mark 8:31-38; Lent 2B)
In this week’s readings, God’s covenant-making continues.