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The Peripatetic Preacher. Ordinary, Extraordinary Love
My barber’s name is Steve. Looking at my picture (see left), you could imagine that...
July 20, 2021
The Peripatetic Preacher Is There History in the Bible?
The short answer to the title of this essay is, “Yes, of course.” If history...
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The Peripatetic Preacher. Get the Shots Already!
Like many of you, I have been deeply distressed that the vaccination goals established by...
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The Peripatetic Preacher. In Solidarity with Creation
Ten years ago, I published a thin book, entitled Preaching Creation, an attempt to provide...
July 13, 2021
The Peripatetic Preacher. Nahum: An Unfortunate Prophet for Our Time
Perhaps the most darkly ironic name of any book in the Bible is that of...
July 12, 2021
The Peripatetic Preacher. Postcard from the Left
I am a decidedly left-wing thinker and actor. This has been true of me since...
July 09, 2021
The Peripatetic Preacher. A Grand Birthday Indeed
Yesterday (July 8) was my 75th birthday, making me now 3/4 of a century old....
July 07, 2021
The Peripatetic Preacher. The Big Lie Lives
Fully seven months after the November, 2020 presidential election, and the resounding victory of Joe...
July 06, 2021
The Peripatetic Preacher. Church and State Once Again
I admit that this essay is a bit late. Our national holiday this year, July...
June 2021
June 29, 2021
The Peripatetic Preacher. Faith or Cynicism
The usual antonym for faith is doubt, but I suggest that the practical opposite is...
June 24, 2021
It has always struck me as odd that the Book of Proverbs found its way...
June 16, 2021
It is more than a pity, rather more an outrage, that this lovely and delightful...
June 15, 2021
The book of 1 Kings is an intriguing amalgam of various strands of tales concerning...
June 09, 2021
The text for this Sunday assigned by the Revised Common Lectionary is purportedly the end...
June 07, 2021
The story of the rise and fall of David is a very long one, and...
June 04, 2021
David imagines that he has gotten away with his appalling actions of 2 Sam.11. He...
June 03, 2021
The story of David that we have been reading now comes to the place that...
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The Peripatetic Preacher. 8th Sunday After Pentecost. 2 Samuel 7:1-14a “A House or House?”
2 Samuel 7 has long been seen by scholars as an interlude between the creation...
May 2021
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After David’s capture of Jerusalem from the Jebusites, and his appropriation of the city as...
May 28, 2021
It is always particularly painful when the 4th of July falls on a Sunday. Too...
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The Peripatetic Preacher. Soil Creatures
In the grand book of Genesis, that ancient record of broken families and grounded hope,...
May 10, 2021
I offer something quite different this week. What follows is a portion of a novel,...
May 07, 2021
The stories about Samuel, Saul, and David, that comprise among the very greatest of tales...
May 06, 2021
Today’s lectionary text is among the most famous in the all of the scripture. It...
May 05, 2021
When moving through the long and rich narratives concerning Samuel, Saul, and David, we are...
May 04, 2021
Today’s lection begins a foray into the complex world of early Israel’s changeover from the...
May 04, 2021
Trinity Sunday. May 16, 2021. Isaiah 6:1-8. “Do Not Stop With Vs.8!”
There is no surprise why this Isaianic text always appears in the lectionary for Trinity...
April 2021
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King David as Modern Model The Peripatetic Preacher
The story of King David, found in the two books of Samuel, and the first...
April 21, 2021
Day Of Pentecost May 23, 2021 Ezekiel 37:1-14 “God’s Spirit at Work” The Peripatetic Preacher
The vast majority of preachers will of course revert to Acts 2 as the basis...
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7th Sunday of Easter May 16, 2021 Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 “The Spirituality of Stuff”
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