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November 2020

November 23, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Individualism is Killing Us

I have made no secret of the fact that I was delighted by the outcome...

November 18, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Petulant Leaders: Saul and Donald Trump

I have thought and written about King Saul of Israel a great deal, including my...

November 17, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Post-Election Pondering

The presidential election has now ended, or better said, it has ended for a great...

November 17, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Advent 4 December 20, 2020 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 “David and Jesus: a Dangerous Duo”

I have long found it quite disappointing that this obvious piece of Davidic propaganda has...

November 14, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Advent 3 December 13, 2020 Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 “Something Missing in Luke?”

For the third Sunday of Advent we turn again to III-Isaiah, that loose collection of...

November 11, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Advent 2 December 6, 2020 Isaiah 40:1-11

There has never been an Advent series of texts that does not include Is.40. The...

November 11, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Advent 1 November 29, 2020 Isaiah 64:1-9

It is once again Advent, that season of expectation and anxious waiting for the birth...

November 10, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Something New Under the Sun

Those of us who voted for Joe Biden for president at the same time voted...

November 09, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Hardheaded Hope

At long last, and after much anguish and fear, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher One Vote

Since I live in California, a state that mails a ballot to every registered voter,...

October 27, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher An Antidote to Cynicism

I suggest that one clear and dangerous result of the current deep divisions in US...

October 23, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Reign of Christ November 22, 2020 Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 In Search of a Shepherd

Older accounts of Christian Sundays named this day, “Christ the King,” prior to a necessary...

October 22, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Choosing a Leader

It is election time again, and we in the US are being asked to make...

October 21, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Fish Tales and Whoppers: Why They Matter

I am no longer a pastor of my own congregation, nor am I required, by...

October 20, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 28 November 15, 2020 Judges 4:1-7 “Things Are Seldom What They Seem”

[Beginning Note: If you would like a more detailed analysis of this passage, please see...

October 13, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher “Gott mit Uns”

I imagine that the title of this essay may be familiar to many of you....

October 06, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 27 November 8, 2020 Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25 “Choosing God Again”

The entire book of Joshua is the purported story of how the forces of Israel,...

October 04, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Legal Textualism and Biblical Fundamentalism

The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett by President Trump to fill a place on...

October 03, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump

Let me begin by saying that I am very sorry that the president, his wife,...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 26 Joshua 3:7-17 Nov.1, 2020 A Different Kind of All Saints Day

Most of the celebrations of All Saints Day that I have encountered or led have...

September 24, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 25 October 25, 2020 Deuteronomy 34:1-12 “The Suffering Mediator”

The towering figure in the Hebrew Bible is without doubt Moses. He is deliverer of...

September 23, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher When Hebrew Lives Mattered

I am a member of a church here in Los Angeles that is in the...

September 15, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 24 Exodus 33:12-23 October 18, 2020 God’s Necessary Obscurity

There is something deeply incongruous about the portrait of God presented to us in the...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 23 October 11, 2020 Exodus 32:1-14 Moses vs. Aaron

Ex 32 is truly one of the great story chapters in our Bible. The so-called...

August 27, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 22 October 4, 2020 Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 The Ten

So the pesky 10 words have come around again, and it is, as always, difficult...

August 26, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 21 September 27, 2020 Exodus 17:1-7 Where is God?

The theme of the grumbling, whining Israelites continues in this short vignette from the lengthy...

August 24, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 20 September 20, 2020 Exodus 16:2-15 Greed

As we continue our traversal of the grand story of Israel’s exodus from Egypt and...

August 21, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 19 September 13, 2020 Exodus 14:19-31 Victory at Sea

After last week’s talk of the necessity of festival celebration right in the middle of...

August 20, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 18 September 6, 2020 Exodus 12:1-14 Passover

It seems quite astonishing that in what the Common Lectionary names a “semicontinuous” romp through...

August 19, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Proper 17 August 30, 2020 Exodus 3:1-15 (+) A Divine Dodge?

Today presents to us one of the Bible’s best-known stories, Moses at the burning bush....

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