Reflections on the common lectionary (May 7 - June 25, 1995)
Living the Word
Living the Word is a monthly reflection on the Sunday readings from the Revised Common Lectionary.
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?
Verna J. Dozier 7-01-1994
We trace the Story—our story—from its beginnings in the Hebrew scriptures, through its climax in the memories of the early church as reflected in the gospels, and then on to what sense
Verna J. Dozier 6-01-1994
The scriptures for our meditations come from first and second Samuel, the Psalms, the gospel according to Mark, and Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians.
Bill Wylie-Kellermann 5-01-1994
The remaining gospels of eastertide play out Jesus’ farewell discourse in the latter chapters of John.
Bill Wylie-Kellermann 4-01-1994
There is no more brilliant literary surprise, I think, in all of scripture than the shocking cliffhanger abruptness of Mark’s resurrection account.
Bill Wylie-Kellermann 2-01-1994
Prior to Constantine, when the church was outlawed and, with some regularity, systematically persecuted, the reception of members was a rigorous and risky proposition.
Bill Wylie-Kellermann 12-01-1993
Advent couldn't be more out of step with the doings of the dominant culture.
Walter Wink 6-01-1992
What we are seeking is the questions that themselves brought the text into being. We try to follow the questions back to their source, to comprehend what is moving in the questions. We become willing to suspend our favorite beliefs (and disbeliefs), to bring our own lives and understandings under radical scrutiny, to allow the text to examine us, rebound on us, as a fundamental challenge to our integrity. We give the Bible that much authority, not because we worship it, but because we are confident (we have heard about it happening to others or it has happened to us!) that the Holy Spirit is able to train its words on us, laser-like, and perform the soul-surgery that we need to become more whole, more real, more our true selves.