30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, RCL)
42 results found.
Creating a disruption (Mark 10:46-52)
There is a tearing at the social fabric when Bartimaeus cries to Jesus.
October 27, Ordinary 30B (Job 42:1–6, 10–17)
Job passively endures a lot of trauma before he finally speaks directly to God about it. That’s the turning point.
A deeper legacy than hard work
The psalms of ascent press hard against the norms of our bootstrap culture.
The book of Job is a parody
Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.
Tears are a gift from God
They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.
October 24, Ordinary 30B (Mark 10:46-52)
More than a miracle story, this is a story of a call.
The New Testament’s most dangerous book for Jews
Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism
Sight to the blind, hearing to the unlistening (Mark 10:46-52)
The crowd's proximity to Jesus does not make them attentive to his priorities.
October 28, Ordinary 30B (Mark 10:46-52)
Why does the crowd demand that Bartimaeus be silent?
The Red Hen and the spirit of Eucharist
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied a meal at a Virginia restaurant. I wonder who's welcome at our table.
What about the brokenhearted? (Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Psalm 126)
Unabated cultural frivolity rules our churches, too.
My friends are praying for me. Does God care?
God’s response to Job is cold comfort when you have terminal cancer.
Prayer isn’t our work, it’s God’s
I mostly agree with Jeffrey Weiss about prayer. I think St. Paul would too.
Poetry that bids us welcome
How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?