Let’s get it straight: Living God’s way in the world is not for the faint-hearted.
Living the Word
Living the Word is a monthly reflection on the Sunday readings from the Revised Common Lectionary.
Peter B. Price 7-01-1997
"God’s saving justice is never served by human anger," points out James in his letter to Christians struggling against the power structures that threatened to consume the Christian Community.
James W. Douglass, Shelley Douglass 9-01-1996
How shall we live as disciples of Jesus the Christ? The readings for these winding-down weeks of the year all address that question. These scriptures raise painful inner and outer questions of nonviolence. Many of them deal with gospel economics, the economics of the heart and the economics of the purse. The gospel is neither solely personal nor solely political. It embraces and transforms both—at the cross.
This is our sixth and final "Living the Word." We again alternate Sundays, this time with Jim doing the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth, and Shelley the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth.
James W. Douglass, Shelley Douglass 5-01-1996
Reflections on the revised common lectionary, cycle A.
James W. Douglass, Shelley Douglass 1-01-1996
These reflections actually began with Christmas, the incomprehensible feast celebrating the unbelievable fact: God with us, God loving us (see "Living the Word," November-December 1995).
James W. Douglass, Shelley Douglass 11-01-1995
Reflections on the revised common lectionary (November 5 - December 24)
Joyce Hollyday 3-01-1995
Reflections on the revised common lectionary (February 19 - April 30, 1995)
Joyce Hollyday 12-01-1994
Reflections on the revised common lectionary (November 27 - February 12, 1995)
Verna J. Dozier 9-01-1994
In September the ordered world of Proverbs and James is read against the cross of Mark’s world.
Verna J. Dozier 8-01-1994
In the language of "left brain, right brain" constructs, the scriptures for the weeks of August call upon our right-brain gifts. We leave the world of what we can see and touch and document and enter a world of imagination and creativity, a world of poetry and emotion.
We pass from the last vestiges of the wilderness and the prophet of the wilderness, Samuel, to the courtly chronicler and the beginning of the record of the Kings. We had begun such a transition last month with the movement from the swift action and immediacy of Mark to the leisurely contemplation of the meaning of it all in John.
There is a world of human experiences in the scriptures and many ways in which those experiences are shared. Let us be open to them all. This is our Story. These are our spiritual ancestors who are speaking to us. What can we hear from the Hebrew record, from the gospel, from the epistle that will speak to us today so that we can, in our own voice, pass the Story on?