Mark
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February 21, Lent 1B (Mark 1:9–15)
Jesus is attended to by angels—and wild beasts.
Repentance at the heart (3B) (Jonah 3:1-5, 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20)
There’s a whole lotta repenting going on in these texts.
February 14, Transfiguration B (Mark 9:2–9)
Peter wants to capture that mountaintop experience forever.
February 7, Epiphany 5B (Mark 1:29-39)
Mark's Gospel provides tantalizing hints about Peter’s unnamed mother-in-law.
January 31, Epiphany 4B (Mark 1:21-28)
What does it mean to teach “with authority”?
January 24, Epiphany 3B (Mark 1:14-20)
Jesus’ ministry shows that preaching has consequences. We should preach anyway.
January 10, Baptism B (Mark 1:4–11)
Readers of Mark’s Gospel know that a divine fragmentation could happen at any time.
Yanking out the tablecloth (Advent 1B; Mark 13:24-37)
Advent amid the rubble of 2020
December 6, Advent 2B (Mark 1:1-8)
Advent calls us to take the myths of Christianity seriously.
November 29, Advent 1B (Mark 13:24-37)
In Advent, we expect the unexpected.
Interpreting Jesus’ healings as a conflict with purity laws is dead wrong
Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death.
Youth ministry isn’t about fun
How one youth leader stopped being a chief counselor of fun and discovered something better.
February 23, Transfiguration A (Matthew 17:1–9)
God’s presence transfigures here, now, in the familiar.
Has family become an idol?
The Bible gives no sense that the family is an end in itself.
How Christian theology and practice are being shaped by trauma studies
Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away