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Given that the occasion of this Sunday is so prominent (as it should be), we will inevitably end up interpreting this Psalm through the lens of Easter resurrection. Therefore, I am going to do so (...)

Every year the Revised Common Lectionary offers the opportunity to read through significant portions of the Jerusalem narrative on Palm/Passion Sunday. This gospel lesson is drawn from the Synoptic Gospel that anchors the year. So (...)

Jesus has come to Jerusalem for Passover again, but for the last time (12:12). As was the case on his first trip, he comes from an intimate gathering among friends to an urban setting in (...)

En el pasaje anterior, Jesús tiene un diálogo con un líder farisaico llamado Nicodemo donde este “maestro de Israel” (3:10) visita  a Jesús “de noche” para hablar sobre lo bien que Jesús ha sido recibido, (...)

The text for the Third Sunday after Epiphany continues the dramatic action in the Gospel of Mark. Without a nativity story we are “immediately” (Greek, euthus) (1:10) into the ministry of Jesus with the baptism (...)

In Lectionary Year B many of the texts are from the Gospel of Mark.  However, on this Second Sunday after Epiphany, we are suddenly blind-sided with a text from the Gospel of John. This will (...)

With the golden calf narrative, preachers have an opportunity to explore with their congregations the stunning, and even surprising, character of God and God’s way with the world. The scene in Exodus 32:1-14 is preceded (...)

Thomas Merton once stated “Praise is cheap,” and it seems as though these words remain true today. We give homage to so many things that our praise is cheap. Is it also accurate to say (...)

Matthew and Mark both record that Jesus once fed 5000 (men, not counting women and children) and later fed another 4000 or so people. The repetition of these feeding stories serves a narrative function (especially (...)

Liturgical observances of Pentecost are informed almost entirely by the familiar story in Acts 2, with images of fire, prayers offered in multiple languages, and attention to the church’s prophetic vocation. “The Johannine Pentecost,” as (...)