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November 2016

November 09, 2016

Hope for Unity

( Lectionary for November 13, 2016 Isaiah 65:17-25) There can be no better text than...

November 04, 2016

Shalom for All

(Lectionary for Nov 6, 2016)In many respects the prophet Haggai is unique in the Hebrew...

October 2016

October 20, 2016

Living in Faithfulness

(Lectionary for October 30, 2016) The small book of Habakkuk throws up an unusual...

October 14, 2016

Dreaming the Right Dreams

God’s revelation in the Bible comes in multiple ways. In 1 Samuel 28, the first...

September 2016

September 05, 2016

Jeremiah 31:27-34 “Is YHWH’s New Covenant Bad News or Good News?”

(Lectionary for October 16, 2016) This passage is so rich historically, theologically, and anthropologically that...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 “Just How Can You Know What God is Doing?”

(Lectionary for October 9, 2016) Chapters 28 and 29 of the long book of Jeremiah...

August 27, 2016

Lamentations 1:1-6, 3:19-26 “The Need to Lament”

(Lectionary for October 2, 2016) We are people who do not like to lament. Let...

August 26, 2016

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 “Hard Headed Hope”

(Lectionary reading for September 25, 2016) (The rose above is called "Hope for Humanity") There...

August 25, 2016

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 “The Difficult Art of Empathy: Trump, Clinton and Us”

(Lectionary for September 18, 2016) We live in hard and brittle times. The current presidential...

August 22, 2016

Numbers 21: 4b-9 “What Can We Do With All These Snakes?”

(Lectionary text for Holy Cross, Sept 14, 2016 or Sunday Sept 18, 2016) Oh, dear,...

August 16, 2016

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Fearful Purveyors of Doom: Trump and Jeremiah

(Lectionary Reading for September 11, 2016) This Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of an unforgettable...

August 15, 2016

Jeremiah 18:1-11 “You/We are the Potter?”

(Lectionary for September 4, 2016) “Thou art the potter, I am the clay.” How many...

August 02, 2016

Jeremiah 2:4-13 “Our Cracked Cisterns”

(Lectionary for August 28, 2016) “Without doubt my people have committed two evils: they have...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Jeremiah 1:4-10 “The Call and the 2016 Election”

( Lectionary for August 21, 2106) Jeremiah was born and raised in a retired preacher’s...

July 25, 2016

Isaiah 5:1-7 “City on a Hill/Vulgar Vineyard and Trump’s Confusion”

(Lectionary for August 14, 2016) In 1630, John Winthrop, leader of the English group that...

July 23, 2016

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 “Superman, Batman, Trump, and Isaiah”

(Lectionary August 7, 2016) In their 1977 book, The American Monomyth, Robert Jewett, a noted...

July 21, 2016

Hosea 11:1-11 “Trump, and Clinton, and Hosea”

(Lectionary for July 31, 2016) The race for president of the USA is fully underway,...

July 18, 2016

Hosea 1:2-10 “Pain and Hope Together”

(For the lectionary, July 24, 2016) It is very risky to read and discuss, let...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

Fruit Basket Upset Amos 8:1-12

As a family, we used to love the game “fruit basket upset.” Do you know...

June 14, 2016

Church and State and Amos Amos 7:7-17

I have in my long career as Bible scholar and theologian rarely been reluctant to...

June 10, 2016

Improbable Emissaries 2 Kings 5

Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, July 3, 2016 In the summer of 2004 my wife and I...

June 07, 2016

Of Mentors and Mentees 2 Kings 2:1-18

We all have had mentors in our lives, acknowledged and unacknowledged, and thus we have...

June 02, 2016

Mountains and Waterfalls and Unbreakable Love Psalms 42 and 43

The Old Testament text for this Sunday, June 19, is I Kings 19, that wonderful...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

The Lure of a Vineyard I King 21

I do not drink wine; I have never drunk wine, neither from boxes nor bottles,...

May 26, 2016

Avoid the Magic, View the Man I Kings 17:8-24

I have been teaching others about the wonders of the Hebrew Bible for nearly fifty...

May 24, 2016

The Power of Women I Samuel 2:1-10

As an ordained man in the church, I have long taken my status and power...

May 19, 2016

Victory and Revenge: Mendelssohn and Elijah on Carmel I Kings 18

Who does not like to be a winner? The taste of victory is so sweet,...

May 16, 2016

A Desperate Need for Wisdom: Reflections on Proverbs 8

I can hardly remember a time when the insights of Lady Wisdom are more needed...

May 04, 2016

Vlad Dracul and Count Dracula: Reflections on David, the King

In September, 2014, I realized one of my lifelong ambitions; I traveled to the northwestern...

May 03, 2016

A New Earth: Reflections on Isaiah 65: 17-20 and Psalm 150

September 2, 2015 was Acoma Pueblo Feast Day. I doubt many know of this event...

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