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2013-12-10T13:04:50-05:00

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The Adventurous Lectionary for December 15, 2013 (Advent 3)

Last updated on: December 10, 2013 at 1:04 pm By Bruce Epperly

Lectionary Reflections for the Third Sunday in Advent December 15, 2013 Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 1:46b-55a James 5:7-10 Matthew 2:1-11 Healing the World Advent is a time for hopeful transformation. Creation and humankind lean toward wholeness; creation groans and so do we. God is at world in all things, restoring the broken, healing the sick, and welcoming the outcast. Isaiah sings the glad songs of restoration. “The wilderness and dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom,” the blind... Read more

Progressive Christianity

2013-12-03T17:12:21-05:00

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Continuity and Uniqueness: Reflections on “Jesus: First Century Rabbi”

Last updated on: December 3, 2013 at 5:12 pm By Bruce Epperly

Scholars, pastors, and laypeople alike are rediscovering the Jewishness of Jesus and the continuity between the first-century Christian movement and the Jewish tradition prior to and following the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, whom we Christians call Christ and Savior. Freed from replacement theories regarding the relationship of Judaism and Christianity and Hebraic spirituality and the teachings of Rabbi-Savior Jesus, we can understand Jesus in new and life-transforming ways. We must always affirm that Jesus was a Jew, who... Read more

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Rabbi

2013-12-03T12:56:22-05:00

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The Adventurous Lectionary: The Second Sunday of Advent — John, Jesus, and Spiritual Friendship

Last updated on: December 3, 2013 at 12:56 pm By Bruce Epperly

Lectionary Reflections for the Second Sunday of Advent December 8, 2013 Isaiah 10:1-11; Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12 John is a major figure in our Advent Adventures. Still, little is known about the relationship of Jesus and John the Baptist. According to tradition, when Mary the mother of Jesus meets her close relative Elizabeth, John leaps in utero in acknowledgment of the uniqueness of Mary’s son. Beyond that, the early life of John, later John the Baptist, like Jesus’ early life, is... Read more

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2013-12-02T00:43:07-05:00

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Preaching as an Adventure of the Spirit: A Response to David Lose’s Preaching at the Crossroads

Last updated on: December 2, 2013 at 12:43 am By Bruce Epperly

Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once described worship as an adventure of the spirit. The same judgment could apply to preaching as well: preaching is also an adventure of the spirit especially when we are at the crossroads, dealing with a changing world and changing images of preaching and spiritual leadership. David J. Lose’s Preaching at the Crossroads: How the World – and Our Preaching – Is Changing accurately surveys the world to which the preacher must share her or his... Read more

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2013-11-27T15:43:38-05:00

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Aging and Full Humanity: A Conversation with Johann Christoph Arnold’s “Rich in Years”

Last updated on: November 27, 2013 at 3:43 pm By Bruce Epperly

I have just passed my sixty-first birthday. It seems like almost yesterday I was going to love-in’s in Golden Gate Park and partying with surfer girls and high school mates in Santa Cruz, California. Whenever we chat on Facebook, my friends from the James Lick High School (San Jose, CA) class of 1970 reminisce about old times and share photos of our grandchildren. Although we are in good health, some of our comments remind me of the bantering among the... Read more

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Progressive Christianity

2013-11-27T15:32:48-05:00

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The Adventurous Lectionary: The First Sunday in Advent – December 1, 2013

Last updated on: November 27, 2013 at 3:32 pm By Bruce Epperly

Lectionary Reflections for December 1 2013 Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122 Romans 13:11-14 Matthew 24:36-44 Advent awakens us to visions of a glorious future. We hear of God’s aim for history, and recognize that the fulfillment of God’s aim is always partial. God does not fully control the historical process but inspires the evolution of persons and communities. Our own readiness can tip the balance towards God’s vision in our personal lives and communities. Isaiah describes God’s new, but future, age. ... Read more

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2013-11-27T15:22:58-05:00

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Living with Less: Responding to Susan Vogt’s Blessed by Less

Last updated on: November 27, 2013 at 3:22 pm By Bruce Epperly

As I read Susan Vogt’s Blessed by Less: Clearing Your Life of Clutter by Living Lightly, I was confronted with the challenges of living simply in a complicated world. While I don’t live extravagantly or have fewer professional demands than many urban and suburban parents with children, twenty-first century middle class living is extravagant and cluttered by comparison to any previous time. It is clear that what we deem necessities were luxuries in an earlier era. I don’t want to go... Read more

2013-11-19T00:51:15-05:00

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Pondering Providence: Responding to Robert Tracy Knight’s “The First Thanksgiving”

Last updated on: November 19, 2013 at 12:51 am By Bruce Epperly

Robert Tracy McKenzie does a masterful job of liberating the pilgrims from the cultural and economic myths that often disguise their faith and practices in his new book The First Thanksgiving. He sees them as God-centered people, leery of religious holidays, and focused on covenant with God and one another. The pilgrims were inspired by the necessity of caring for each other; their faith and economics were a far cry from today’s individualistic capitalism and religious life. Covenant means that... Read more

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Thanksgiving

2013-11-18T15:27:21-05:00

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Bonhoeffer’s Vision and Process Theology

Last updated on: November 18, 2013 at 3:27 pm By Bruce Epperly

A Response to The Bonhoeffer Reader, edited by Clifford J. Green and Michael P. DeJonge Few theologians have responded as creatively and forthrightly to the postmodern challenge as Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer recognized the pluralistic, multi-centered, experience-oriented world of our current religious landscape. He imagined an emerging Christianity, no longer at the center of culture, but at the margins, and making these same margins the ground of a frontier faith. Postmodernism presented a threat to the old-time religion and Christian supremacy,... Read more

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2013-11-18T14:11:07-05:00

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Charles Eistenstein, Saving the World, and the George Bailey Principle

Last updated on: November 18, 2013 at 2:11 pm By Deborah Arca

For over forty years, I’ve celebrated each Christmas season by watching It’s a Wonderful Life. I’m sure I’m not the only who has to reach for a handkerchief in the course of observing George Bailey’s adventures in self-discovery. Overwhelmed by financial failure and the frustrations of daily life, Bailey contemplates suicide until he is confronted by an angelic visitor who shows him the panorama of his life: despite his regrets about missing out on his great dream of traveling the... Read more

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