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2026-01-12T07:42:48-05:00

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Second Sunday After the Epiphany – January 18, 2026

Last updated on: January 12, 2026 at 7:42 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – Second Sunday after the Epiphany – January 18, 2026 Isaiah 49:1-7; Psalm 41:1-11; I Corinthians 1:1-9; John 1:29-42 The Second Sunday after the Epiphany focuses on the nature of call, personally and communally. Life is a moment-by-moment call and response in which God speaks to us in our gifts and in the events of our lives, and we respond, embodying God’s call in our own unique way. God’s call to us is not only for us... Read more

2026-01-04T20:10:54-05:00

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Baptism of Jesus – Lectionary Commentary for January 11

Last updated on: January 4, 2026 at 8:10 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Baptism of Jesus – January 11, 2026 Isaiah 42:1-9; Psalm 29; Acts 10:34-43; Matthew 3:13-17 Epiphany is all about revealing the divine in expected and unexpected places. The season of the magi is the season that joins the universal and the individual and the infinite and intimate. Today’s revelation is all about water, one of the most common and taken for granted aspects of first world life. Our tap water, flowing Jordan waters, waves on Cape Cod shores and... Read more

2025-12-29T08:39:57-05:00

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Let the Light Shine – Lectionary Commentary for January 4

Last updated on: December 29, 2025 at 8:39 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Second Sunday of Christmas Jeremiah 31:7-14, Psalm 147:12-20, Ephesians 1:3-14, John 1:1-18 This year, we have two Sundays in the season after Christmas Day. While in some congregations, the focus moves from the lectionary to Epiphany, there is good reason to continue the Christmas season throughout all its twelve days. For the past several years, I have made celebrating the twelve days of Christmas at the heart of my winter spiritual practices: I continue to listen to Christmas carols... Read more

2025-12-23T08:21:23-05:00

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Adventurous Lectionary – Christmas I – December 28, 2025

Last updated on: December 23, 2025 at 8:21 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The First Sunday after Christmas Day – December 28, 2025 Isaiah 63:7-9; Psalm 148; Hebrews 2:10-18; Matthew 2:13-23. On this First Sunday after Christmas Day, the readings are both painful and hopeful. They describe the contrast between the fidelity of God and the beauty of God’s world and the evil intentions of those in political power. Tragic beauty, a term coined by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, could easily describe the extreme contrast between a world... Read more

2025-12-15T05:03:24-05:00

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Dreams of Christmas – Lectionary Commentary for December 21

Last updated on: December 15, 2025 at 5:03 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The Fourth Sunday in Advent – December 21, 2025 Isaiah 7:10-16 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-25 Just four days to Christmas. There is magic but also frenzy in the air. Many of us are racing to get the final Christmas presents and have been to the supermarket for supplies for Christmas festivities. While we can become enmeshed in the logistics of Christmas, we need also to awaken to the deeper rhythms of Christmas, the... Read more

2025-12-08T10:31:34-05:00

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Upside Down Advent – Lectionary Commentary for Advent 3

Last updated on: December 8, 2025 at 10:31 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – Third Sunday of Advent – December 14, 2025 Isaiah 35:1-10 Luke 1:46b-55 James 5:7-10 Matthew 2:1-11 Advent is a time for hopeful transformation. It is a time of birth and possibility, of horizons of hope that liberate our imaginations and energize our actions. Advent is global and not parochial, inclusive and not anthropocentric, and both infinite and intimate. Advent portrays a world upside down, countercultural, in which the poor are uplifted and billionaires brought low, in... Read more

2025-11-29T18:04:22-05:00

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The Second Sunday of Advent – December 7, 2025

Last updated on: November 29, 2025 at 6:04 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – December 7, 2025 – The Second Sunday in Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 Today, we explore radical transformation, guided by God, but brought about by ourselves. I think global history argues against a divine rescue operation. Today’s readings contain both threat and promise, and we might struggle with Isaiah’s vision of God as one who strikes the earth and kills the wicked. God sides with the oppressed and the wicked wealthy... Read more

2025-11-23T08:56:59-05:00

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Woke Spirituality – Advent 1 – November 30, 2025

Last updated on: November 23, 2025 at 8:56 am By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – The First Sunday of Advent -November 30, 2025 Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 22, Romans 3:11-14, Matthew 24:36-44 This week the theme is “woke spirituality.” “Woke” has a bad name in some circles, where people distrust the quest for diversity and justice, and want to return to a time before affirmative action, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights; a time when misogynist and racist humor were acceptable, and white males got more than their fair share. A... Read more

2025-11-16T13:52:14-05:00

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Celebrating the Reign of Christ – Lectionary November 23

Last updated on: November 16, 2025 at 1:52 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – November 23, 2025 – The Reign of Christ Jeremiah 23:1-6, Luke 1:68-79, Colossians 1;11-20, Luke 23:33-43 Where does “Christ the King” or “The Reign of Christ” Sunday fit in the wake of our recent “No King’s Day?” Can we speak of divine kings or sovereigns without privileging narrow understandings of Christianity or authoritarian understandings of the interplay of faith and politics? On the last Sunday of the Christian year, the Season of Pentecost, beginning with the... Read more

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2025-11-09T14:49:01-05:00

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A New Heaven and A New Earth? – Pentecost 23 – Nov. 16, 2025

Last updated on: November 9, 2025 at 2:49 pm By Bruce Epperly

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The Adventurous Lectionary – November 16, 2025 – Pentecost 23 Isaiah 65:17-25 and Isaiah 12 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 Is there hope in our troubled times? Can we depend on God saving the day without our efforts? How shall we respond to the apostasy and immorality of the public policy of many “Christian” political and pastoral leaders and their congregants? (Now I realize that apostasy is a strong word but it applies to forsaking the prophets and social ethic... Read more

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