Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for February. Over the next four weeks, Jesus’ ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for January. The next four weeks usher us throu ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for December. A few years ago, as I and the res ...

Laurel A. Dykstra Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for November. The month of November is a lectio ...

Laurel A. Dykstra Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for September. Dorothy Day, co-founder of the C ...

and Syntyche Exodus 32:1-14; Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23; Philippians 4:1-9; Matthew 22:1-14 ...

Laurel A. Dykstra Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A. Wind across the quay-side / Grit in ...

Laurel A. Dykstra “That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got int ...

Laurel A. Dykstra We have returned now to what some churches call “ordinary time,” a designation more to do with the numbering of weeks th ...

Laurel A. Dykstra Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost are not three distinct seasons, but rather celebrations of and grapplings with three a ...

Laurel A. Dykstra The books of Luke, Acts, and 1 Peter dominate the readings this month; Peter and Paul are key players. ...

Laurel A. Dykstra This month, as we enter the high season of the church year, the common lectionary offers an overwhelming number of bibl ...

Laurel A. Dykstra Christians tell the same story over and over even though we know how it ends. We dread the execution even as we anticip ...

Laurel A. Dykstra In the Northern Hemisphere, the short days and long nights of winter come with lectionary readings full of references t ...

Laurel A. Dykstra December 1 is World AIDS Day. Worldwide, 15 million children have lost one or both parents to the AIDS pandemic; in Zim ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry In Ceremonies of the Seasons, Jennifer Cole writes, “All calendars are founded upon a wish to organize our experi ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Cycle C. Last month's Hebrew Testame ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. Themes of time and patience uni ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Cycle C. This month's readings bring ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. "Ordinary time" in th ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. Eastertide concludes in May wit ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Cycle C. Passion Week is a popular time f ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Lectionary, Cycle C In the United States, March is dedicat ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. The word “February” comes from ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. Jesus’ Healing Waters ...

Malinda Elizabeth Berry Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. How can we live the Word if we ...

Robert Roth Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle B for November. As a community of faith, the ...

Robert Roth Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for September. This would be a good month to rest the ...

Robert Roth Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for October. A ship’s hull that holds together when t ...

Robert Roth It is natural for people of faith to ally with secular organizations and approaches. We may even see the spirit of God in move ...

Robert Roth These five weeks of passages extol the depth, breadth, and living power of shalom—the biblical peace for humanity and all that ...

Robert Roth At its best the church is an "innocence project" for ourselves and others. Sometimes we ...

Robert Roth Love binds and builds, heals and hallows, redeems and restores. Love binds and builds, heals and h ...

Robert Roth Peter's denials and Judas' betrayal foreshadow the reactionary horror to come. The trut ...

Robert Roth Covenants order our lives, our faith communities, and, in the best of times, our nations. The promises and agreements God makes to us, and that we make to one another, ...

Robert Roth Is 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' just a current movie or is it also a national mantra? With on ...

Robert Roth In Kashmir, Niger, Honduras, and parts of every U.S. city, the situation is urgent. Thankfully, so is God’s persistent love. ...

Robert Roth Peace, salvation, and the reign of God arrive with beauty and song. The Beauty of Ju ...

Robert Roth Whenever you helped the needy - or ignored the poor - Jesus said, "you did it to me." ...

observe justice" (Psalm 106), we will be tested, and the Philippians and 1 Thessalonians readings ... no health insurance. October 9 Golden Parties Exodus 32:1-14; Psalm 106 ... at Horeb," remembers the psalmist, "and worshiped a cast image" (Psalm 106:19). This kind ...

Robert Roth Among a people of faith, giftedness changes the world. A bush burns, ...

"righteous ordinances" (Psalm 119:106)? From the sacred laws of God, we anticipate intensely ...

Robert Roth The most serious of events can seem, The most serious of events can seem, well, funny at the time. Encountering God’s transformative act ...

Paula Gooder When watching sports, When watching sports, I’m always most impressed by the decathletes. Those who are able to compete skillfully in such ...

Paula Gooder It is often said that what you pay for something affects how much you value it. It is often said that what you pay for something affects ho ...

Paula Gooder The resurrection makes hope a permanent and immovable feature of the new creature in which we now dwell. ...

Paula Gooder The story of the Bible is one of increasing inclusion. In our current idiom, faith has become ...

Paula Gooder Have you ever sat and watched a moth drawn into a light bulb? Have you ever sat and watched a moth drawn into a light bulb? The moth simply ...

Michaela Bruzzese Six months after Ash Wednesday, Six months after Ash Wednesday, we are gifted with another month of reminders of its most basic and im ...

Michaela Bruzzese The history of the struggles of the oppressed is the history of the call of the Holy Spirit to a divided world, The history of the str ...