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Some of us will be marking this Sunday as Reformation Sunday—a Lutheran detour from the Revised Common Lectionary. For more than 30 years, I have felt obligated to abandon the steady sermonic march of the appointed lectionary text in favor of the Reformation Day Gospel: “You will know the truth and the truth will make you free” (John 8:31–36).
