Transfiguration Sunday (Year C, RCL)
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Masks hide us—and shape us
When extremists don disguises and terrorize others, they also do grave
moral damage to themselves.
Seeing with clarity
You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes.
August 17, Ordinary 20C (Luke 12:49-56)
Luke usually tones down the apocalyptic intensity we encounter in Matthew and Mark. Not here.
Reading Paul without anti-Judaism (2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2)
It’d be easier to ignore the tough parts of this 2 Corinthians text. But that’s dangerous.
March 2, Transfiguration (Exodus 34:29-35; 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a))
Peter, James, and John are all of us.
February 11, Transfiguration B (Mark 9:2–9)
What Peter, James, and John see on the mountain cannot be neatly packaged for resale.
Shiny things (Exodus 34:29-35)
The story of Moses’ descent from Mount Sinai should be paired with the story before it.
February 27, Transfiguration B (Luke 9:28-36 [37-43a])
In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus—like Moses and Elijah—is a figure of departure.
February 23, Transfiguration A (Matthew 17:1–9)
God’s presence transfigures here, now, in the familiar.
Seeing and knowing (Luke 9:28-43a)
The thing Peter needs is right there in front of him.
March 3, Transfiguration C (Exodus 34:29–35; Luke 9:28–43a; 2 Corinthians 3:12–4:2)
Jesus’ transfiguration should have implications for how its witnesses will live.
What made early Christians a peculiar people?
“One second-century pagan critic of Christianity was willing to tolerate everything else about Christians if they would only worship the gods.”
The Transfiguration sermon I need (Matthew 17:1-9)
There is no "on the mountain" and "off the mountain."