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Soaking in the Word of God
Originally Posted: 06/12/2013 - 9:49am | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. AS THE SEAONS after Pentecost unfolds, ...

'Greater Works Than Mine'
Originally Posted: 05/15/2013 - 10:05am | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C THE SAGA OF Elijah that we are followin ...

Growing Up Trinitarian
Originally Posted: 04/10/2013 - 9:17am | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C I WAS BROUGHT UP up on stories of my fa ...

Fifty Days of Grace
Originally Posted: 03/18/2013 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C HOW SHALL WE engage with scripture thro ...

The Scales of Rejoicing
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C "THIS IS THE LORD'S DOING; it is marv ...

Risking Depth and Passion
Originally Posted: 01/14/2013 - 11:33am | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C "EVEN IF I OWNED Picasso's &# ...

'Let Jesus Be Cursed!'
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C "NO ONE SPEAKING by the Spirit of God ever ...

The Season to Put on Beauty
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:33pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C “TAKE OFF THE garment of your sorrow and afflic ...

A World Without Immigrants?
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B IT WOULD BE strange if any segment of the litur ...

Romancing the Word (September 2012)
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B By the late Middle Ages, which book of the Bibl ...

When the Bible Reads You (October 2012)
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B [ online only ] Our readings from Hebrew ...

Bread From Heaven
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B THE MOTTO OF RADICAL FAITH always is “now—or ne ...

Dynamics of Ordinary Time
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 3:45pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B Listening to the scriptures requires a gentle d ...

God's Passionate Vulnerability
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 4:05pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B One of the drawbacks intrinsic to liturgical wo ...

New Wind, New Flesh
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 4:05pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B Experiments in my first science class at school ...

God's Cross to Bear?
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 4:05pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B Every Holy Week I reread a scene in Helen Wadde ...

The Foolishness and Weakness of God
Originally Posted: 05/14/2013 - 4:06pm | Type: Magazine Article

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B In this Lenten season we ask what is truly tran ...

Embracing the Powers that Be
Originally Posted: 01/09/2012 - 1:02pm | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Reflections on the Common Lectionary God’s saving power is for all people across time and space. ...

The Freedom to Choose Life
Originally Posted: 01/30/2012 - 3:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Reflections on the Common Lectionary. There is so much life for us to enter into now that Christ ...

Bearing the 'Wait' of the World
Originally Posted: 12/05/2011 - 11:15am | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Reflections on the Common Lectionary. The Word of God is steadfast and faithful. This is the prom ...

With the Eyes of Our Hearts
Originally Posted: 12/05/2011 - 11:14am | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Reflections on the Common Lectionary. The journey of faith is long and full of forked roads. Every ...

SEPTEMBER Not for the Faint of Heart
Originally Posted: 09/14/2011 - 2:13pm | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Reflections on the Common Lectionary. Following where God leads is not an easy task. God's w ...

OCTOBER Remembering Our Identity
Originally Posted: 09/14/2011 - 2:21pm | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Reflections on the Common Lectionary. God is a God of order. The first order of business is to re ...

No Ordinary Season
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:08pm | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro During Ordinary time, the season after Pentecost, it might appear that not much is going on, ecclesially speaking. ...

God's Care Package is Bursting
Originally Posted: 07/26/2011 - 4:49pm | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A It seems as if now, as much as ever, we coul ...

How Do We Practice an Easter Life?
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:11pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann These Easter readings line out the new life lived by the community of Jesus. They show, on the one hand, that Easter li ...

Holy Spirit Mapping
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 7:26am | Type: Magazine Article

Enuma Okoro Jesus says, receive the Holy Spirit, whom you cannot control. Diversity is an essential attribute of a Spirit-filled church. ...

Going Public with God's Good News
Originally Posted: 11/16/2011 - 5:03pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A. Faith leads us into the abyss of de ...

Trusting God's Inexplicable Goodness
Originally Posted: 03/22/2011 - 5:02pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflect;ion on the Revisd Common Lectionary, Cycle A: Transfiguration, False Desire to LIfe, Can We Start Again, and Hi ...

What Does Our 'New Self' Look Like?
Originally Posted: 02/27/2011 - 7:13pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann We enter into a season focused on Christ’s human possibility as a defiant alternative to the human self proposed by the ...

Walking With the Light of the World
Originally Posted: 02/27/2011 - 7:22pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Epiphany is the exhibit of Jesus in the world. The early church was utterly enthralled by Jesus, but did not find it so ...

Have You Heard the Good News?
Originally Posted: 02/22/2011 - 5:41pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Advent and Christmas are seasons for mismatches. Advent and Christmas are seasons for misma ...

God's Reign Cracks into Our World
Originally Posted: 02/27/2011 - 7:40pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann During November we reach the conclusion of the church year. We remember our dead and ponder the God of life. We begin A ...

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann September 2010: 'Come, Rejoice With Me'; October 2010: The Nature of Faith Sept ...

Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann The 'Low Holy Days' of Summer Summer time may be when “the livin’ is easy” for a ...

A Season of Generosity and Gratitude
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C The season of Pentecost, with the sur ...

A Cast of Emancipated Characters
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C These texts, taken in sum, imagine th ...

Refusing the Deathly World of Anxiety
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C These readings mark the transition in ...

The Power of Suffering Love
Originally Posted: 02/08/2013 - 1:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C Our readings move from Friday to Sun ...

Lent is 'Come to Jesus' Time
Originally Posted: 04/04/2013 - 10:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C Lent is a time for “following.” The ...

An Answering God
Originally Posted: 04/27/2011 - 4:16pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C The readings for February include the ...

Wondrous, Inexplicable, Demanding Newness
Originally Posted: 04/26/2011 - 2:10pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C The biblical writers, in a rich varie ...

Getting Ready for the Unexpected
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:26pm | Type: Magazine Article

Walter Brueggemann Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C Elizabeth (mother of John) and Mary ( ...

Our Redemption Draws Near
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:26pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle B & C As we end the liturgical year, ...

An Unconventional Messiah
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:26pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for September and October. Jesuit theologian Ca ...

From Bread to Body
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:27pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for August. The next month is dominated by Jesu ...

A Prophet Without Honor
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:27pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for July. The readings this month begin and end ...

Be Still and Know
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for June. The Easter season concludes with the ...

Christian Community 101
Originally Posted: 03/14/2012 - 5:21pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for May. In the four weeks that precede Pentec ...

Believing What's True
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:30pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for April. We enter Holy Week stripped of all t ...