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July 2018

July 18, 2018

Ninth Sunday After Pentecost 2 Samuel 7:1-14 July 22, 2018 “Raw Propaganda?”

I was for a long time vastly disappointed in this chapter of the long saga...

July 10, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Translates Hebrew

I first began my study of Hebrew in the fall of 1968, almost 50 years...

July 10, 2018

Eighth Sunday After Pentecost 2 Samuel 6:1-23 July 15, 2018 “A Man After God’s Own Heart?”

Today I return to my fictional retellings of the tales of the books of Samuel,...

July 05, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Reads “Fantasyland”

I am a voracious and eclectic reader. I go to a bookstore or library and...

July 03, 2018

Seventh Sunday After Pentecost 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 July 8, 2018 “God’s Choice?”

This is a deeply troubling passage of Scripture. It at one level appears to be...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Visits the Land of Poetry

I have been thinking of the debasement of our language in quite appalling ways over...

June 26, 2018

Sixth Sunday After Pentecost 2 Samuel 1:1,17-27 July 1, 2018 “Two Stories of Death”

This chapter of the second book of Samuel has been chopped up by the lectionary...

June 21, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to a Baseball Game

It has long been said that baseball is “America’s Game.” Frankly, I doubt that is...

June 19, 2018

Fifth Sunday After Pentecost 1 Samuel 17 June 24, 2018 “Love God/Love Self?”

There can be no more familiar Bible tale than the one for today, the killing...

June 12, 2018

Fourth Sunday After Pentecost 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 June 17, 2018 “A Man After God’s Own Heart/”

The great story of the rise and fall of King Saul and the rise and...

June 12, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to Grinnell College

This year marks fifty years since my college graduation. I am astonished at this number,...

June 12, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Reads “It Can’t Happen Here”

I am currently in our cabin in the mountains of New Mexico and blessed with...

June 08, 2018

Third Sunday After Pentecost June 10, 2018 1 Samuel 8:4-11 “Samuel Takes It Personally”

As I said in my last post, I propose to tell a story of my...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

Second Sunday After Pentecost I Samuel 3:1-10 June 3, 2018 “That Call”

(Lectionary for June 3, 2018) And, as Monty Python were fond of saying, “Now, for...

May 14, 2018

Trinity Sunday Isaiah 6:1-8 May 27, 2018 “Send Me…How Long”

(Lectionary for May 27, 2018) We are about to enter that long swatch of Sundays...

May 09, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to Denali

I have been privileged to go to Alaska five or six times in my life,...

May 08, 2018

Day of Pentecost Ezekiel 37:1-14 May 20, 2018 “O YHWH, You Know”

(Lectionary for May 20) I know full well that the vast majority of you will...

May 07, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to Delphi

I have always loved Greece. It has been described as one of the world’s largest...

May 03, 2018

Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 May 13, 2018 “A Renewed Patriarchy”

(Lectionary for May 13, 2018) It has long been striking, and quite disheartening, to note...

May 01, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to the Isle of Staffa

“Here his mighty waters play On the organ all the day” Thus did John Keats...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 10:44-48 May 6, 2018 “Lord of All”

(Lectionary for May 6, 2018) My denomination, the United Methodists, has been wracked by dissension...

April 24, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Visits Some Waterfalls

Nature offers to us one of its most majestic sites when it presents a waterfall....

April 23, 2018

Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 8:26-40 April 29, 2018 “On Reading the Bible”

(Lectionary of April 29, 2018) This great story of the Ethiopian eunuch has presented fodder...

April 20, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to the Earth

Well, of course, I am already ON the earth, as are you, so why should...

April 19, 2018

Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 4:5-12 April 22, 2018 “No Other Name?”

(lectionary for April 22, 2018) Whenever the collectors of the lectionary send us Hebrew Bible...

April 12, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to Cordoba

In May, 2012, my wife and I took a trip to Spain, beckoned there by...

April 11, 2018

Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3:11-19 April 15, 2018 “A Deep Hatred”

(Lectionary for April 15, 2018) Whenever I enter the world of the New Testament, my...

April 05, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to Germany (circa 1933)

Since I was not born until 1946, and in Indiana rather than Germany, my trip...

April 04, 2018

Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4:32-35 April 8, 2108 “The Rich You Have Always With You?”

(Lectionary for April 8, 2018) The Gospel of Luke is particularly concerned with the presence...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

The Peripatetic Preacher Goes to the Garden Tomb

During my first trip to Israel and Jordan, now 40 years ago in January, 1978,...

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