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Category Archives: Reflections on Sunday Readings
Easter 4B: Good Shepherd Sunday and Earth Day
The Gospel reading for this Sunday is part of John chapter 10–Jesus discourse on himself as the Good Shepherd (John 10:11-18). Wendell Berry distinguishes between farmers who are married to the land and others who rape the land. I see … Continue reading
Easter 3 B: Ambiguity and the Sense and Sensibility of Faith
The Readings for the Third Sunday of Easter are: First Reading Acts 3:12–19 Psalm Psalm 4 New Testament 1 John 3:1–7 Gospel Luke 24:36b–48 Ambiguity drives us to distraction. We want black and white answers to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Piper, atheism, evangelical, Faith, fundamentalism, John Piper, pandemic, sense, sensitivity
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Easter 2 B: Resurrection Oneness
Readings for the Second Sunday of Easter are First Reading Acts 4:32–35 Psalm Psalm 133 New Testament 1 John 1:1–2:2 Gospel John 20:19–31 Throughout all my years of ministry if I had a choice of things … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Featured, John's Posts, Pandemic Blog, Reflections on Sunday Readings, Social Political Issues
Tagged 1 John, Acts, Church, fellowship, John, koinonia, oneness, psalms, unity, wilderness, yahad, youth
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Easter B: Resurrection Questions
The readings for Easter Year B, The Resurrection of Our Lord First Reading Acts 10:34–43 or Isaiah 25:6–9 Psalm Psalm 118:1–2, 14–24 New Testament 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 or Acts 10:34–43 Gospel John 20:1–18 or Mark 16:1–8 … Continue reading
Palm/Passion Sunday B: Meaning Shines Out From Steadfastness
The readings for the Liturgy of the Passion: Old Testament Isaiah 50:4–9a Psalm Psalm 31:9–16 New Testament Philippians 2:5–11 Gospel Mark 14:1–15:47 or Mark 15:1–39 (40–47) Friedrich Nietzsche was a harsh critic of religious belief; but … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Featured, Free Range Philosophy, John's Posts, Pandemic Blog, Reflections on Sunday Readings
Tagged Isaiah, meaning, Nietzsche, nihilism, pandemic, servant, steadfastness, suffering
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Lent 4 B: Poisonous Prevention
These are the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent Old Testament Numbers 21:4–9 Psalm Psalm 107:1–3, 17–22 New Testament Ephesians 2:1–10 Gospel John 3:14–21 The Old Testament and Gospel readings both refer to famous cases … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Featured, John's Posts, Pandemic Blog, Reflections on Sunday Readings, Social Political Issues
Tagged Christ, credulity, credulous, crucifixion, John, Numbers, pandemic, serpent, vaccination
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Lent 3 B: Use Science, Don’t “Trust” It
The Readings for the Third Sunday in Lent: Old Testament Exodus 20:1–17 Psalm Psalm 19 New Testament 1 Corinthians 1:18–25 Gospel John 2:13–22 Because our last President made such a mess of our nation’s pandemic response … Continue reading
Lent 1 B: The Noah Covenant and the Pandemic
This Sunday’s readings: Old Testament Genesis 9:8–17 Psalm Psalm 25:1–10 New Testament 1 Peter 3:18–22 Gospel Mark 1:9–15 Last Sunday was Transfiguration, and we thought of that word of our time: “unprecedented.” The fire, the windstorm, … Continue reading
Transfiguration B: Listen through Unprecedented
Today on one more day of an unprecedented stretch of super cold temperatures, we look out on unprecedentedly huge drifts of snow, in the midst of a pandemic that has infected and killed unprecedented numbers of people worldwide, and listen … Continue reading
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Tagged awe, cloud, Elijah, Elisha, fire, Jesus, pandemic, transcendence, transfiguration, wind
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