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Eric D. Barreto

Eric D. Barreto is a Baptist minister and associate professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Dear Pastor

Imagining the grace to come

Witness is an act of trust in a God who sends us to see and tell of all the things God is doing.
Sunday’s Coming

Don’t miss the judgment (Luke 13:1-9)

Jesus’ parables ought to alarm us, draw us short.
Sunday’s Coming

Jesus mocks Herod (Luke 13:31-35)

When we hear Jesus retort, “Tell that fox….,” we have to keep in mind the litany of intersections between Jesus, his followers, and the Herodian dynasty.
In the Lectionary

March 24, Lent 3C (Luke 13:1-9)

Are we the gardener? Or the fig tree?
In the Lectionary

March 17, Lent 2C (Luke 13:31-35)

Prophecy is a job not for the comfortable but for the afflicted.

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