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January 2021

January 29, 2021

Christian Nationalism: Oxymoron The Peripatetic Preacher

Let’s get clear from the start: there is simply no such thing as Christian Nationalism....

January 27, 2021

“Careful What You Ask For” The Peripatetic Preacher (Transfiguration Sunday February 14, 2021 2 Kings 2:1-12)

Elisha, heir to the prophet Elijah, is an altogether different figure than his mentor, at...

January 25, 2021

Racism: Guilt and Culpability The Peripatetic Preacher

Many of those of us who are white citizens of US America have struggled with...

January 23, 2021

God: Old and New The Peripatetic Preacher (5th Sunday after the Epiphany Isaiah 40:21-31 February 7, 2021)

The poet we know as 2-Isaiah, who wrote his rich words late in the exile...

January 21, 2021

“Who Speaks for God?” The Peripatetic Preacher (4th Sunday after the Epiphany January 31, 2021 Deuteronomy 18:15-20)

Back when I was teaching Hebrew Bible as part of my assignment on the faculty...

January 19, 2021

Starting Over The Peripatetic Preacher

I write this essay on Jan.19, 2021, the day before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris...

January 13, 2021

Third Sunday After the Epiphany January 24, 2021 Jonah 3:1-5, 10 “A Prophet Gone Bad”

Jonah and I are old friends, or at least well-worn acquaintances. Among the very first...

January 12, 2021

Second Sunday After the Epiphany January 17, 2021 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 15-21 “Words Do Matter!”

Today’s text is rich with ambiguity, like so many of the complex tales recorded in...

January 11, 2021

Pelagius and Senator Hawley The Peripatetic Preacher

Well you may ask what in the world may be the relationship between a 5th...

January 09, 2021

Release the Kraken The Peripatetic Preacher

The raucously Trumpian attorney, Sidney Powell, has several times over the past few terrible months...

January 08, 2021

The Baptism of the Lord 1st Sunday After the Epiphany January 10, 2021 Genesis 1:1-5 “God and Baptism”

Since the celebration of the Baptism of Jesus always follows barely two weeks after his...

January 04, 2021

“O, Villain, Villain, Smiling Damned Villain” The Peripatetic Preacher

Thus spoke Hamlet, after his ghostly father has revealed to him that his brother, Claudius,...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Where is Wisdom Found? The Peripatetic Preacher

Among the Bible’s more enigmatic words is "wisdom." It has a very broad range of...

December 30, 2020

Resolutions of a Christian 2021 The Peripatetic Preacher

As the year turns, I have always found the making of resolutions grand fun, usually...

December 29, 2020

COVID Silver Linings? The Peripatetic Preacher

I admit that I am hesitant to write anything positive about the now 10-month-old pandemic...

December 28, 2020

A Genuinely New Thing The Peripatetic Preacher

I have always been completely confused about the Revised Common Lectionary’s committee choice year after...

December 23, 2020

Beginning Again in 2021 The Peripatetic Preacher

I need not add to the assaults against poor 2020 that have been leveled by...

December 21, 2020

The Gift and Challenge of Diversity The Peripatetic Preacher

Back in the 1980’s the United Methodist Church, the denomination with which I am affiliated,...

December 17, 2020

All I Want For Christmas… The Peripatetic Preacher

For those of you of a certain age, the conclusion of my title is “my...

December 16, 2020

Christmas History/Christmas Poetry The Peripatetic Preacher

Not a single person reading this essay has failed to have the experience of the...

December 14, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher A Hero With an Unlikely Face

In a time of pandemic when stories of loss and agony and untold pain flood...

December 12, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher We Need Jesus and Voltaire

Yesterday, I wrote an essay that I titled “Protocols of the Elders of Trump,” riffing...

December 11, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Protocols of the Elders of Trump

In 1903 a scurrilous pamphlet was published in Russian, “The Protocols of the Elders of...

December 09, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher “Lies and Mendacity”: Aaron, Peter, and Donald Trump

I steal my title today from that famous Tennessee Williams play, “Cat on a Hot...

December 08, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Distraction Disaster: Donald Trump and King Solomon

I need not repeat the withering list of horrifying data pouring out of newspapers and...

December 07, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Never Give Up the Power: Donald Trump and Samuel the Prophet

In this second week in December, 2020, a full five weeks after the November presidential...

December 02, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Stealing an Election–Biblically

There is something distinctly bizarre about what has happened since the presidential election nearly a...

December 01, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher 1st Sunday of Christmas December 27, 2020 Isaiah 61:10-62:3 “New Leadership”

I have doing a good bit of thinking over this election season about leadership. The...

December 01, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The UM Cross and Flame—Time for a Change

My denomination, United Methodism, has had more than its share of controversies over the 50...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Music Hath Charms…

You may recognize a quotation from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” from Act 5 that...

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