Bartimaeus is the paragon of faith in Mark's Gospel, which makes it more than mildly ironic that some churches will skip his story to read something else for Reformation Day.

This lection is quite short, a snippet from within a larger literary context.

In some ways I kind of hate the ending of Job, at least the very, very end.

The psalm selected for the Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost, for those traditions and congregations that do not observe Reformation Sunday, is Psalm 126.