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October 2018

October 08, 2018

Atonement and Some Odd Hypothetical Questions about Disciples

There are many theories of atonement in the history of Christian theology. Jesus reconciles us...

October 03, 2018

Civil Disobedience and the Puzzle that was Thursday: Why did Jesus Turn Himself In?

Jesus enters Jerusalem knowing authorities there wanted to kill him. For about four days he...

October 01, 2018

The Sacrament of Touch: We Touch Jesus’ Body and the Discipleship Story, Though Bruised and Broken, Carries On

Some people are auditory learners, some visual. Some, like me, relate to the world primarily...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Apocalypse: A Plague (or is it Stars Falling) on Both Your Houses

The so-called “Little Apocalypse” in Mark is no prediction of a distant future end of...

September 24, 2018

Not Rendering to Caesar and Other Challenges on a Tuesday in Passover Week

Separation of church and state is not a first-century idea. Rendering something to Caesar and...

September 19, 2018

The Fig Tree and the Temple: Monday and Tuesday Morning

A fig tree helps us interpret one of the surest, but not always understood, facts...

September 17, 2018

Palm Sunday: A Procession with an Anti-climax

It’s Sunday in Passover Week—later for Christians it becomes the first Palm Sunday—and it’s a...

September 12, 2018

Mark’s Catechism, House Rules for God’s Kingdom

My catechism doesn't say it, but being a Christian means that powers of the world...

September 10, 2018

Resurrection: Puzzling with the Disciples about Jesus’ Predictions

Mark has Jesus predict both his passion and his resurrection three times. The disciples don’t...

September 05, 2018

The Transfiguration, Dazzling but not Triumphant

In the Transfiguration scene does Mark give us a brief glimpse of Jesus’ triumph over...

September 03, 2018

Bookends to the Transfiguration, Hope in the Dark, and a Guess about Jesus at Prayer

Jesus’ path gets increasingly dangerous as we move through Mark’s Gospel. At the same time...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

The Kingdom of God, A Kingdom of Equals, Where Even Jesus Can Lose an Argument

The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of equals. Jews and foreigners, rich and poor,...

August 27, 2018

Gentiles in the Kingdom of God. Jesus Feeds the Multitude Twice

Why does Mark put two long stories of feeding the multitude into his short Gospel?...

August 22, 2018

Parables, Earthly Stories with Heavenly Meanings? … Maybe Not

Jesus tells parables, stories with comfortably familiar scenes and, often, strange twists. The tendency of...

August 20, 2018

Beelzebul — Who or What, Exactly, is in Service to this Demon?

Name calling is a favorite tactic of challenged establishments. Today you might be called a...

August 15, 2018

The Twelve Apostles, Start of a Community of Resistance

In Mark Jesus does not work alone. As weak and lacking in understanding as his...

August 13, 2018

Meals, Fasting, and Sabbath: Taking on the Pharisees

Jesus challenges the three basic elements in the symbolic order that the Pharisees cherished. Perhaps...

August 06, 2018

Social Justice: The Challenging Symbolism of Healing Miracles

More than charity to individuals motivates Jesus to heal the sick. He challenges the purity...

August 06, 2018

The Devil and an Exorcism: Jesus Upsets Business as Usual

Jesus’ teaching “with authority” is an attack on the scribes, but it’s the devil...

August 01, 2018

Fishers of Men in the Kingdom of God. Fish Hooks for Which People?

Jesus tells his first disciples, “I will make you fishers of men.” It's a more...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

John the Baptist, the Centers of Power, and the Stronger One

John the Baptist preached repentance, but for which sins? And for whose? John and Jesus...

July 25, 2018

Mark’s Gospel, The Dangerous, Political Beginning: ‘News of Victory’

Gospel: A dangerous word for a dangerous story. Mark commandeers the Propaganda Roman term “Gospel”...

July 23, 2018

The Worldly Spirituality of the Gospel of Mark

Introduction to a Series on the Earliest Gospel A worldly spirituality moves more deeply than...

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