In the Lectionary
June 24, Ordinary 12B (Mark 4:35-41)
What do we miss when we seclude ourselves on safe shores of sameness?
June 17, Ordinary 11B (Mark 4:26-34)
My Western side longs for more activity in this parable, but I'm trying to listen to my Eastern side.
June 10, Ordinary 10B (Mark 3:20-35)
When Jesus names the need for deep social change, people think he's possessed.
June 3, Ordinary 9B (Mark 2:23-3:6)
It's inevitable that the story of Jesus healing in Capernaum won't end well.
May 27, Trinity Sunday (John 3:1-17)
John 3:16 is about crisis, but not the crisis of God brooding in heaven waiting on us to make a choice.
May 20, Pentecost B (John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15)
Jesus has gone underground. That's the setting of our Gospel reading this Pentecost.
May 13, Easter 7B (John 17:6-19)
Christian theology is a love story.
May 10, Ascension of the Lord (Luke 24:44-53)
The church organizes its life in the wake of absence.
May 6, Easter 6B (John 15:9-17)
Sometimes the life of abundant love is lonely.
April 29, Easter 5B (Acts 8:26-40; 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8)
We are divided. We do not abide each other well.
April 22, Easter 4B (Psalm 23; 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18)
The "jobsworth" and the good shepherd.
April 15, Easter 3B (Luke 24:36b-48)
Our risen savior has taste buds and a digestive tract.
April 8, Easter 2B (John 20:19-31)
When Jesus walks into the locked room, the first thing he offers is peace.
April 1, Easter Sunday (Mark 16:1-8)
On Easter Sunday, we want to feel triumphant. Instead we get Mark 16.
March 30, Good Friday (John 18:1-19:42)
Who were the people who watched Jesus' crucifixion?
March 29, Maundy Thursday (John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
When I was a youth pastor, I was familiar with John 13—but the idea of footwashing freaked me out.
March 25, Palm Sunday B (Mark 11:1-11)
Humility isn't a stunt for Jesus—it's a condition of his life.
March 25, Passion Sunday B (Mark 14:1-15:47; Psalm 31:9-16)
In the hours before the Passion, the Jesus who was hidden becomes revealed.
March 18, Lent 5B (John 12:20-33)
The crucified Jesus in John's Gospel is cosmic—and magnetic.
March 11, Lent 4B (Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21)
Don't forget to read John 3:17.