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February 2019

February 18, 2019

Seventh Sunday After the Epiphany Genesis 45:3-11, 15 February 24, 2019 “Hidden Arrogance?”

The tale of Joseph among his brothers has been called a biblical novella. That title...

February 12, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Anticipates Celebrations

2019 is the year of my wife’s and my 50th wedding anniversary. It hardly seems...

February 11, 2019

Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany February 17, 2109 Jeremiah 17:5-10 “Our Cheating Hearts”

The long book of Jeremiah is at times a very loose collection of sayings from...

February 05, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: Reading the Bible (4)

If I were more perfectly accurate, perhaps I ought to have entitled this series; “Reading...

February 04, 2019

Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany February 10, 2019 Isaiah 6:1-8, (9-13) “How Long?”

Please note that sly little five-verse section included in today’s text selection, encased (and thus...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: Reading the Bible (3)

In the previous two essays of this series, I have addressed two elements of Bible...

January 28, 2019

Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany February 3, 2019 Jeremiah 1:4-10 “The Call of God”

Every preacher must have in her homiletic quiver the arrow of the story of her...

January 25, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: Reading the Bible (2)

In the first installment of my ruminations on reading the Bible, something I have done...

January 21, 2019

Third Sunday After the Epiphany January 27, 2019 Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 “The Need for Interpretation”

The historical complexity of the books and lives of Ezra and Nehemiah, the former a...

January 15, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: Reading the Bible (1)

The Bible is a glorious, frustrating, challenging, absurd, delightful book, or a collection of books,...

January 14, 2019

Second Sunday After the Epiphany Isaiah 62:1-5 January 20, 2019 “What’s in a Name?”

Here is a fun passage from the third section of Isaiah’s prophetic grab-bag collection, a...

January 10, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Listens to Mahler’s 2nd

I am a musical snob. Since my senior year in High School, a few more...

January 07, 2019

Baptism of the Lord January 13, 2019 Isaiah 43:1-7 “The Gospel”

We find in this marvelous passage for today one of the clearest statements of the...

January 03, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Thinks About Humility

Because I am a United Methodist clergyperson, and have been for nearly 50 years, I...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Epiphany of the Lord January 6, 2019 Isaiah 60:1-6 “The Making of a Myth”

“We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts we travel afar...” You of course know...

December 27, 2018

First Sunday After Christmas Day December 30, 2018 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26 “Samuel and Hannah in Shiloh”

The lectionary prefigures the story of Jesus by giving us the origin tale of the...

December 19, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Confronts a Christmas Crisis

My son, Darius, and his wife of 10 years, Caroline, are heading for divorce. That...

December 18, 2018

Fourth Sunday of Advent December 23, 2018 Micah 5:2-5a “Come, Thou Long Expected…?”

Micah is a very complicated book, and has engendered no end of attempts to solve...

December 12, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Visits Bryce Canyon National Park

I warned you, dear reader, several weeks ago, that I was about to embark on...

December 11, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Thinks About Blindness

When I was a pastor in Louisiana now over 40 years ago, I had a...

December 10, 2018

Third Sunday of Advent December 16, 2018 Zephaniah 3:14-20 “Pipe Dreams?”

I doubt that Zephaniah would head many lists of favorite prophets of the Hebrew Bible,...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

Second Sunday of Advent December 9, 2018 Malachi 3:1-4 “A Dangerous Messenger”

I admit that it is something of a pleasure not to have to deal with...

November 09, 2018

First Sunday in Advent Jeremiah 33:14-16 December 2, 2018 “Hope Against Hope”

I know full well that very few of you will use Jeremiah on the first...

November 08, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Reflects on the Mid-Term Elections

Since I have moved to Los Angeles, and have joined as an affiliate member Westwood...

November 07, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Reviews His Dreams

Yesterday was the long-awaited mid-term elections, and I am grateful that the Democrats retook the...

November 06, 2018

Twenty-Seventh Sunday After Pentecost 2 Samuel 23:1-7 November 25, 2018 “If Only…”

With this final Sunday before Advent, now called Reign of Christ Sunday, the Hebrew Bible...

November 06, 2018

Twenty-Sixth Sunday After Pentecost 1 Samuel 1:4-20 November 18, 2018 “The Plain Meaning?”

Those of us who have had the privilege of reading the Bible for the church...

November 01, 2018

Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 November 11, 2018 “Ruth in Canonical Context”

Last week I offered a reading of Ruth that has become important to me as...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher and His Facebook Page

When I first signed on to Facebook some years ago, the general talk seemed to...

October 29, 2018

Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Ruth 1:1-18 November 4, 2018 “A Female Model We Need”

I have written several times concerning the astonishing book of Ruth, how I gave it...

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