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April 2020

April 09, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Fifth Sunday of Easter May 10, 2020 Acts 18:1-11 “Paul’s Gospel in Corinth”

After Luke’s famous tale of Paul’s work in Athens, the center of ancient Greek learning,...

April 08, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Fourth Sunday of Easter May 3, 2020 Acts 17:1-15 “COVID-19 and Luke: Language Counts”

The Book of the Acts of the Apostles is Luke’s second volume of his work...

April 06, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Third Sunday of Easter April 26, 2020 Acts 3:1-13 “Peter and Kenneth Copeland”

I admit to a certain and undying fascination, a kind of guilty pleasure, when it...

April 03, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Attempts to Read the Gospels for What They Are

As we approach the holist days of Christianity, I have been led to think again...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher on the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

In this extraordinary time of forced isolation, a time that promises to extend longer than...

March 30, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Acts 1:1-11 April 19, 2020 “Can I Get a Witness?”

I want to continue my use of the narrative lectionary for a time, since it...

March 26, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher, the Virus, and Prayer

As I have often revealed in these essays, I am a 50-year United Methodist clergyman,...

March 20, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and a Strange Easter April 12, 2020 Mark 16:1-8

It is nearly certain now that we in Los Angeles will not be wending our...

March 19, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and Good Friday April 10, 2020 Mark 15: 16-39 “What Purpose?”

It appears more and more likely that my church, along with thousands of others this...

March 18, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Strange Dinner Party Maundy Thursday April 9, 2020 Mark 14:17-30

The frenetic pace of Mark’s story, sprinkled liberally with the word “immediately,” slows down noticeably...

March 17, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher, the Virus, and the Silent Rider Palm Sunday April 5, 2020

My reading of this very famous scene, the root of the centuries old church celebrations...

March 16, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Gift of Toilet Paper

We are definitely in it now, a real, honest-to-goodness pandemic, birthed by the wide spread...

March 15, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the End of the Age Mark 13;1-8, 24-37 Lent 5 March 29, 2020

At the end of Lent, it is common for the lectionary of whatever sort to...

March 13, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher, the Virus, and Fear

I have been meeting once a month over the past couple of years with a...

March 11, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Lent 4 Mark 12:28-34 March 22, 2020 “The Great Commandment”

As usual Mark gives us something quite unique in his recounting of the confrontation between...

March 09, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Presidential Process

In spite of all those alliterative “p’s,” of the title, I really do have something...

March 06, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Mark 12: 1-17 Lent 3 March 15, 2020 “Taxes?”

I write this article at the end of a fascinating political week. This past Tuesday...

March 02, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Lent 2 Mark 10:32-52 March 8, 2020 “The Glory of Slavery?”

As the Markan Jesus becomes increasingly dark with predictions about the coming catastrophe, the disciples...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and Sabbath

The idea of Sabbath is a very difficult sell in 21st century America. In the...

February 24, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Lent 1 Mark 10:17-31 March 1, 2020

In this brief section of Mark’s Gospel we find four separate pieces of story and...

February 21, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and Greed

I read just this morning an article in my local paper (yes, I still read...

February 18, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Mark 9:30-37 Lent 1 March 1, 2020 “Look at the Child”

The crisis of the Gospel of Mark is looming closer, as this sequence of texts...

February 11, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Mark 9:2-8 February 23, 2020 “Transfiguration”

The Narrative Lectionary includes many verses that precede this famous tale (8:27-9:1), but since this...

February 07, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher Mark 7:1-23 February 16, 2020 “Defiling Acts”

No more appropriate text could be chosen, given what we Americans have just witnessed in...

February 04, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher: Elisha, the President, and the Bad News Bears

When Bible pooh-poohers enjoy nothing better than pointing out the numerous places in Holy Writ...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher, The Narrative Lectionary, and Mark 6:1-29 February 9, 2020

Mark 6 gives us the very finest soap opera in the New Testament! It is...

January 29, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and 21st Century Idolatry

I hope you looked carefully at the picture that accompanies this article. It is surely...

January 27, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and Hebrew Bible Translation

I have just finished a fascinating book by Aviya Kushner, called The Grammar of God....

January 24, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher, the Narrative Lectionary, and Mark 5:21-43 February 2, 2020

Mark 5 presents to us two of the more famous healings in Mark’s narrative, the...

January 15, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher: Moses, Machiavelli, and Legitimate Leadership

As I was closing my 33-year career as a member of the Perkins School of...

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