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January 2020

January 14, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher, The Narrative Lectionary, and Mark 5:1-20 January 26, 2020

The text for today is absolutely replete with Mark’s characteristic stylistic gems, while summarizing his...

January 09, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher, Presidential Behavior, and Genesis 3

Some 18 months ago, I set out to skewer Donald Trump by comparing his behavior...

January 08, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Narrative Lectionary Mark 4:1-32 January 19, 2020

There is something distinctly hilarious about this portion of the Gospel of Mark. No, the...

January 07, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Necessity of Doubt

I am currently reading an interesting book, entitled Doubt: A History, by Jennifer Michael Hecht,...

January 03, 2020

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Narrative Lectionary January 12, 2020 Mark 2:1-22

A significant challenge of the Narrative Lectionary is to decide just what portions of the...

December 2019

December 26, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher, Ecclesiastes 3, and the New Year

I have always been deeply perplexed by the Common Lectionary’s choice of Ecclesiastes 3 for...

December 23, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Sees with His new Eyes

I mentioned some weeks ago that I was in the process of cataract surgery on...

December 16, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: The Narrative Lectionary January 5, 2020 Mark 1:21-45 Christmas 2

The story of Jesus according to Mark accelerates its pace, as Jesus and his first...

December 10, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Reads Philip Larkin

Preachers and teachers need poetry. I do not mean by poetry the insides of greeting...

December 09, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Meets Sir John Falstaff

As I have revealed in earlier essays, I am a great lover of William Shakespeare,...

December 09, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Narrative Lectionary Dec.29,2109 Mark 1: 1-20

Now that the “Hallelujah Chorus” has echoed away, the blare of the festive trumpets has...

December 06, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher and the Narrative Lectionary Advent 4 Luke 1:5-13, 57-80

Christmas and the birth of Jesus are very close now. We have but one more...

December 03, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Views “The Crown”

It has been said that the current programming available on television is the very richest...

December 02, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: The Narrative Lectionary Ezra 1:1-4, 3:1-4, 10-13

I am certain that few of you have seldom if ever used an Ezra text...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Listens to Korngold’s “Marietta’s Lied”

In my last blog, I admitted my fears related to aging in general and my...

November 26, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Faces the Process of Aging

I am now 73 years old, and never imagined that I could actually become that...

November 22, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher: The Narrative Lectionary Advent 2 Isaiah 40:1-11

Perhaps like many of you, I have spent much time in the past few weeks...

November 16, 2019

The Narrative Lectionary Advent 1 Mark 8:27-30 The Promise of the Messiah

Since I have already addressed the narrative lectionary’s choice for Advent 1, Jeremiah 33:14-18, in...

November 07, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Shifts to the Narrative Lectionary: 2 Kings 22:1-10, 23:1-3

Let me begin with a note to my readers. I propose for the next year...

November 05, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher and Worry

Though I am in the main a very positive person, seeing the good in nearly...

November 04, 2019

Reign of Christ Proper 29 November 24, 2019 Jeremiah 23:1-6 “Righteousness”

If one follows the lectionary readings as a basic source for one’s preaching, it is...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Thinks About Resurrection with the Help of Gustav Mahler

Recently, my wife and I attended a performance of Gustav Mahler’s massive Symphony #2, known...

October 28, 2019

Proper 28 November 17, 2019 Isaiah 65:17-25 “God’s Community”

The prophets of the Hebrew Bible spend the bulk of their spoken and written words...

October 21, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Visits the Mountains

What is it about the mountains? I have long been a lover of mountains, have...

October 17, 2019

Proper 27 November 10, 2019 Job 19:23-27 “The Death of a god”

I have been using a lectionary list that includes two complete Hebrew Bible texts, so...

October 16, 2019

Proper 26 Isaiah 1:10-18 November 3, 2019 “Tough Words for Tough Times”

If any preacher needs reasons to understand why the prophets of the Hebrew Bible are...

October 15, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher and Sexual Harassment

I am a great lover of opera. This has been a fact since Diana, my...

October 14, 2019

Proper 25 Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 October 27, 2019 “The Rain God?”

Many years ago, I had an exceptionally bright student who, upon his graduation from our...

October 10, 2019

The Peripatetic Preacher Visits Musical Leipzig

As I have indicated in several previous essays, my wife and I recently took a...

October 09, 2019

Proper 24 October 20, 2109 Jeremiah 31:27-34 “A Woman Surrounds a Warrior”

There are multiple ways that the Bible attempts to demonstrate just how radically new the...

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