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Category Archives: lectionary reflection
Suffer the children
And will their dry bones live? Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry
Tagged #Unholy3, 2 Kings 6:24-7:2, 2 Samuel 21:1-14, contextual bible study, Rizpah
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It is not enough
It is not enough for him to die. It is not enough for him to offer up his pain, to offer us his wincing scars: touch my hand; my open, scored side; trace the welts and weals of the thorns … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, sermon preparation
Tagged Easter 2, Jesus, John 20:19-31, Resurrection, Thomas
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The prayer of Lazarus
The prayer of Lazarus, silent by necessity. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer
Tagged Adam, creation, death, Lazarus, mortality, prayer, Year A Lent 5
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Marked men
Later, they sit silent as the grave side by side,
watching a late sun set over the Jordan… Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged baptism, Dead Sea, Jesus, John 11:1-45, Jordan, Raising of Lazarus, Resurrection, Year A Lent 5
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Forgiving Jesus
The readings for the third Sunday in Lent include Jesus’ encounter with a Samaritan woman at a well, and Moses’ miraculous striking water from stone. In the old stories, this encounter beside a well would have ended in marriage. Jacob’s … Continue reading
Well
“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did.” John 4:29 Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, poetry, prayer, sermon preparation
Tagged John 4, woman at the well, Year A Lent 3
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Fear of falling
The lectionary lessons for today are about Adam and Eve, the fall, temptation, redemption, resistance … The devil dared him to be fearless. The devil dared him to be brazen, in God’s face; a son so independent in his own … Continue reading
Posted in holy days, lectionary reflection
Tagged Lent 1, Matthew 4:1-11, temptations of Christ
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The sun also rises
The love that Jesus describes is unflinching, unafraid, and it is relentless. Rebuked and reviled, love nevertheless persists. It refuses to be overcome. It will not give way to injustice. It turns the other cheek. Continue reading
For the love of libraries
Yesterday was the commemoration of Thomas Bray, who founded scores of lending libraries and founded the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Promulgation of the Gospel. The gospel reading appointed for his festival is … Continue reading
Truth, love, and justice
Jesus has some advice: tell the truth. Let your yes be yes, and your no be no. Do not bluster, do not brag. Tell the truth, says our Way, our Truth, and our Life. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged #alternativefacts, beatitudes, divorce, fake news, Matthew 5, sermon on the mount, truth
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