Blogging Towards Sunday, February 16, 2020
Mark 7:1-23 HOLY. It’s a word that I hear used repeatedly, outside of the church context, in two specific expressions: 1) as an explicative “Holy #$%*!” or as … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, February 2, 2020
Mark 5:21-43 Trauma is defined as the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope. Such a life-threatening experience is beyond … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, January 26, 2020
Mark 5:1-20 Today’s story is disturbing. Maybe you’re bothered by the loss of life and income in the 2,000 pigs that hurl themselves off the cliff (Today the … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, January 19, 2020
Mark 4:1-34 Today’s text dwells in the teaching of Jesus about the Kingdom of God via parables. A parable is an analogy in that the story is … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, January 12, 2019
Mark 2:1-22 Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, January 5, 2020
Mark 1:21-45 Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, December 29, 2019
Mark 1:1-20 Mark’s gospel opens with an evocation of the creation story of Genesis 1. But instead of “In the Beginning…” here the story starts with a bang. “The … Continue reading
Blogging Towards the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22, 2019
Luke 1:57-80 & Matthew 1:18-25 Today’s texts both tell of angelic messengers who come with a word to be spoken and heard. Who wouldn’t want to have a child? … Continue reading
Blogging Towards the Third Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2019
Isaiah 35:1-10; Luke 1:47-55; Matthew 11:2-11 In his day of national defeat by Babylon and exile to a foreign land, Isaiah faced the soul-crushing fear of having his … Continue reading
Blogging Towards the Second Sunday of Advent, December 8, 2019
Isaiah 11:1-10 & Matthew 3:1-12 Conversion is a permanent process in which very often the obstacles we meet make us lose all we had gained and start anew. – Theologian … Continue reading
