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May 2019

May 14, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Climate Change and the Bible (6)

The Bible is replete with excellent sources for preaching and teaching about the dangers of...

May 13, 2019

Day of Pentecost June 9, 2019 Genesis 11:1-9, Acts 2:1-21 “The Goal of Preaching and Teaching”

By my own rough count, I have written for Patheos seven essays on a biblical...

May 10, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible and Climate Change (5)

“Divinity is not playful,” claims Annie Dillard in her fabulous 1975 Pulitzer-Prize winning Pilgrim at...

May 07, 2019

Seventh Sunday of Easter June 2, 2019 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 “Come, Lord Jesus!”

I think I claimed in my last essay that the Sixth Sunday of Easter presented...

May 06, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible and Climate Change (4)

The news from the planet grows more calamitous each day. Today I read that we...

May 02, 2019

Sixth Sunday of Easter May 26, 2019 Revelation 21:10,22-22:5 “The Light of God”

We conclude today our six-week foray into the enigmatic, and endlessly fascinating, Revelation of St....

April 2019

April 30, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible and Climate Change (3)

The impetus toward doing something serious about the threat of climate change appears finally to...

April 29, 2019

Fifth Sunday of Easter Revelation 21:1-6 May 19, 2019 “Beast or Lamb?”

Earlier in our perusal of the enigmatic book of Revelation, I promised that I would...

April 25, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible and Climate Change(2)

Last night I watched two episodes of a fabulous documentary on Netflix entitled “Our Planet,”...

April 24, 2019

Fourth Sunday of Easter May 12, 2019 Revelation 7:9-17 “Worthy is the Lamb!”

In this third installment of my series on the book of Revelation, I want to...

April 23, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: Climate Change and the Bible (1)

In the exceedingly odd biblical book of Ezekiel, the prophet receives two separate calls from...

April 22, 2019

Third Sunday of Easter May 5, 2019 Revelation 5:11-14 “Surprise, Surprise!”

Last week I introduced our six-week look at the enigmatic book of Revelation with a...

April 15, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Pete Buttigieg, Make Pence, and the Soul of Christianity

At a recent rally, just before he finally announced his official run for the White...

April 12, 2019

Second Sunday of Easter April 28, 2019 Revelation 1:4-8 “Not Scary, but Hopeful”

This year in the lectionary, the collectors offer to the preacher in the season of...

April 09, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: Easter for Progressive Preachers

I have observed over the years that however grand and glorious the celebration of Easter...

April 08, 2019

Resurrection of the Lord April 21, 2019 “What is This Day About Anyway?”

I have not been able to preach an Easter sermon for many years; after all,...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

Liturgy of the Palms April 14, 2019 Psalm 119:1-2, 19-29 “Hosanna!”

Once again it is time for that long-practiced event that inaugurates Holy Week, Palm/Passion Sunday....

March 20, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher and Mortality

This upcoming July 8 will be my 73th birthday. My father died when he was...

March 20, 2019

Fifth Sunday in Lent Isaiah 43:16-21 April 7, 2019 “Past and Present”

For those of you who read my musings more regularly, you remember that I took...

March 19, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to Spring Training

I have written last year, and perhaps the year before, that I am a great...

March 19, 2019

Fourth Sunday in Lent March 31, 2019 Joshua 5:9-12 “Taking Over”

I am usually alert to the reasons why the collectors of the lectionary have chosen...

March 18, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Teaches the Book of Job in Light of That General Conference(4)

I have just concluded a three-week series on the book of Job for members of...

March 18, 2019

Third Sunday in Lent March 24, 2019 Isaiah 55:1-9 “Is God Omnipotent?”

Today’s lection is chock full of very familiar biblical lines: “Ho, everyone who thirsts, come...

March 16, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Faces His Fractured Church (3)

I imagined when I wrote a blog about my reactions to the United Methodist Church’s...

March 15, 2019

Second Sunday in Lent March 17, 2019 Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 “Our Wonderful Dangerous Bible”

The obvious reason for choosing this passage in the Lenten season is found at Gen.15:6....

March 04, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Faces His Fractured Church (2)

I can hardly say that any of the dust has settled from the called General...

March 02, 2019

First Sunday in Lent March 10, 2019 Deuteronomy 26: 1-11 “The Value of Little Creeds”

Let me indulge today in a bit of scholarly talk about the Hebrew Bible that...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Faces His Fractured Church

There is no use pretending otherwise; the called General Conference of the United Methodist Church,...

February 25, 2019

Transfiguration Sunday March 3, 2019 Exodus 34:29-35 “Of Horns, Shining. and Other Scary Bits”

On every Transfiguration Sunday, the collectors of the lectionary choose this odd little passage from...

February 19, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher as Grandfather

When I was growing up in Phoenix, AZ, I announced to my mother that I...

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