Week 7 (Year 1, NL)
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What mercy in the criminal justice system could look like
What if all were extended the gift of a second chance?
Read the Rape of Tamar, and pay attention to the verbs
The story's action words tell us a lot about power and who has it.
Women of the Bible say #MeToo
Read Tamar or Dinah's story with your church. Listen together for their cries.
My work in God's garden (Matthew 21:33-46)
I enjoy the tomatoes I grow, but they aren't really mine.
October 8, Ordinary 27A (Philippians 3:4b-14; Matthew 21:33-46)
The Apostle Paul shows the struggle to transcend the architecture of ego.
Saul, David, and the morality of power
How shrewdly the drama of mixed motives, mixed loyalties, and mixed feelings unfolds.
Mixed feelings about ashes
The lectionary readings for Ash Wednesday are the same each year. So it almost doesn’t feel like Ash Wednesday if I go through the day without hearing Psalm 51: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.”
2 Samuel by Robert Barron
Robert Barron’s grasp of the complex development of David’s character in 2 Samuel is unsurpassed. And his references to history and literature are more than adornment.