6/25/2018 10:35 AM
Karoline Lewis
We preachers are intercalators. Maybe at some point in time, we learned to be so from Mark. This is Mark’s specialty, of course -- inserting one story …
1/21/2018 3:59 PM
Karoline Lewis
“They kept on asking each other, what is this? A new teaching?”
There’s the rub of the Gospel and why the Gospel was put to death.
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1/1/2018 9:32 PM
Karoline Lewis
Every three years, when Year B rolls around in the lectionary, my podcast co-hosts and I inevitably have the same conversation about Mark’s version …
12/3/2017 3:31 PM
Karoline Lewis
“A voice of one crying out in the wilderness…”
That, Dear Working Preachers, is what preaching is all about these days. If Matthew held …
11/16/2017 12:00 AM
Matt Skinner
In the first article of this two-part series, the author discussed the apocalyptic tenor of the Gospel according to Mark and urged preachers to preach Mark …
11/14/2017 7:41 AM
Matt Skinner
Just in time. The Gospel according to Mark is about to arrive.
Perhaps, like me, you’re wondering how Mark will sound in the upcoming lectionary …
1/6/2015 5:35 AM
Kae Evensen
[This article was first published on Jan. 5, 2009.]
Without small birds, the world would be very quiet.
In fact, it would hardly make a sound. In …
12/2/2014 5:43 AM
Kae Evensen
We are in Advent, and a new church year is beginning.
We have scoured and scraped ourselves through the book of Matthew with all its blessings and gnashings …
11/29/2014 1:31 PM
Luke A. Powery
Luke Powery points out the story of the Gerasene Demoniac and the ending of Mark as moments of opportunity for preaching the Gospel of Mark.
"[The shorter …
11/25/2014 5:37 AM
C. Clifton Black
Regarding the Gospels, many lectionary preachers may approach Year B in the Revised Common Lectionary with less than uplifted hearts. Gone are Matthew’s …
8/7/2013 6:32 AM
Kae Evensen
I was talking with my friend Nadia Bolz-Weber about why we need four gospels.
We talked about how the gospels are embodied, real, and so much so that you …
9/1/2011 12:00 AM
C. Clifton Black
In a previous article, posted on this site last year while our normally alert editors nodded off, I proposed that the Second Evangelist may be the New …