21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, RCL)
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September 29, Ordinary 26B (Psalm 124)
When the Spirit moved among us, we heard the tongues of angels.
Losing puns in translation (Matthew 16:13-20)
Jesus’ word association with “Peter” falls flat in almost every language.
August 27, Ordinary 21A (Matthew 16:13–20)
I find it comforting to realize that Jesus recognizes the incompleteness of Peter’s understanding.
A New Testament that connects the heart languages of First Nations people
The translators hope that “the colonial language that was forced upon us can now serve our people in a good way.”
How the midwives Shiphrah and Puah mock the violence of empire
They use Pharaoh’s tools to dismantle oppression.
Immigration law and the politics of disgust
How Pharaoh treated the Hebrews and how the US has treated my people
A stack of rough stones (21A; Matthew 16:13-20)
Imagine Jesus at the beach, building a cairn.
A stack of rough stones (12A; Matthew 16:13-20)
Imagine Jesus at the beach, building a cairn.
August 23, 21A (Exodus 1:8-2:10)
When the privileged and the helpless are called into holy conspiracy
The pandemic calls for closed hymnals
Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline
Walking with Moses from slavery to liberation
When Moses says “keep still,” he’s not recommending inactivity.
God's love, our bodies
Turned toward one another in worship, we experience the grace of God's gaze.
August 27, Ordinary 21A (Matthew 16:13-20)
Not everyone knows who Jesus is. Do his disciples?
An oracle of the word of the Lord?
In the late 70s, two friends of mine housesat for the poet James Merrill—and got out his Ouija board.
The housed, the homeless, and the right to be somewhere
Faced with someone trying to deny me shelter from the rain, I thought, are you kidding?
Exchanging letters with people in hell
My state has the same number of churches as prisoners. This fact haunts me.
Everybody is somebody
The church is still uncomfortable with human bodies. It does little to promote the rich connection between bodies and Christian spirituality.
Paul uses "body" as a metaphor, and contemporary Christians do the same when we say "the body of Christ." This metaphorical usage generally takes precedence in the church’s practice.