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June 2020

June 11, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Gets a Pandemic Haircut

This week I got a haircut. No, I do not mean that I whacked away...

June 09, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Listening to Lazarus

In my last essay, I attempted to read a text from the Bible through the...

June 08, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Listening to Ishmael

Because I am a white man, 73 years old, and am thus up to my...

June 06, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Christian Nationalism: Oxymoron

Let’s begin by defining our terms. If one claims to be a Christian, as I...

June 04, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher God and the State: A Deadly Disaster

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...

June 02, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Talisman Bible

The Bible appears in 2020 in numerous guises and in literally hundreds of translations. There...

June 01, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Biblical Aaron, Racism, and I

As if the COVID-19 pandemic were not enough for us, the public face of racism...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Bible and Modern Israel

The modern state of Israel is both phenomenon and phantom, constitutional democracy and chimera. Of...

May 27, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Moses Wore a Mask, and So Should We

I need not tell you that we are living in very strange times. I live...

May 25, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Reading in the Shallow and Deep Ends

I used to get paid to read books, or at least that is how I...

May 22, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Stilling of the Song

I have sung in choirs of one sort or another for about 65 years, beginning...

May 20, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher God Did Not Send the Virus!

It seems to me frankly absurd that I should have to address this topic to...

May 18, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Holy Spirit in the Time of the Virus

I have long found the Christian doctrine of the Holy Spirit to be both vague...

May 15, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Jesus Messiah in the Time of the Virus

I doubt there is more confusion and complexity in any Christian doctrinal understanding than may...

May 14, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher God in the Time of the Virus

For those of us who have dedicated our lives to understanding who God may be...

May 13, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher A Dangerous Text From John’s Gospel

During this pandemic time, my church has been offering each Tuesday and Thursday evening a...

May 12, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher A COVID-19 Teacher of Theology

The famous words from Deuteronomy have long been my marching orders as a teacher of...

May 09, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher “Mother”

Some of my most painful memories of Christian worship have occurred around that monumental secular...

May 07, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Death of Expertise in Our Day

I finished my college education in 1968, having been schooled during the “turbulent 60’s,” a...

May 06, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Love Your Enemy–Try!

Yesterday, the current occupant of the White House was quoted as follows: “If we have...

May 04, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Freedom in Bondage

Those of us who live in Southern California have now been isolated in our homes...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Tragic Loss of Job (6)

Well over one-half of the Book of Job is given over to the 3-cycle dialogue...

April 27, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Tragic Loss of Job (5)

“Call now! Is there anyone to answer you? To which of the holy ones will...

April 23, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Tragic Loss of Job (4)

One of the deep ironies of the story of Job is that the ongoing dialogue...

April 22, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Tragic Loss of Job (3)

If my reading of Job’s response to his series of tragedies in Job 2:10 in...

April 21, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Tragic Loss of Job (2)

In the first essay of this six-part series on the loss of the book of...

April 20, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher The Tragic Loss of Job (1)

I propose to address the Book of Job over the next six essays of this...

April 16, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Pentecost May 24, 2020 Acts 2:1-13 “The Gift Of Languages”

The church’s celebration of Pentecost each year is based on the ancient Jewish practice of...

April 13, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher: The Meanings of Resurrection

It is the day after Easter, April 13, 2020, and I imagine all of you...

April 10, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Sixth Sunday of Easter “The Power of Love” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Even though I am writing this on Good Friday, April 10, the Narrative Lectionary sets...

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