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Between Proper 10 + 11 (Year A)
A couple pieces the lectionary skips over reveal a lot about the texts we’re reading. And much more about ourselves.
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Between Proper 7 + 8 (Year A)
In the space between last week and this week, we might lose contact with the context. Apostleship and division.
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Between Proper 6 + 7 (Year A)
We often blanche at the tough stuff. When Jesus asks something difficult, we pretend it isn’t necessary. Or real.
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Between Trinity Sunday and Proper 5 (Year A)
As we enter into Ordinary Time, we are thrown into the middle of the story in Matthew. At a moment of great confusion.
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Between Easter 7 + Pentecost (Year A)
We have a choice between two gospels this week. And most preachers will focus instead on the reading from Acts.
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Between Easter 5 + 6 (Year A)
The struggle we have, entering into this particular gospel, is to recognize just how much context can reshape our vision of it.
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Between Easter 3 + 4 (Year A)
What we need to know between weeks three and four of Easter is that we are revisiting a moment we started in Lent.
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Between Easter 1 and 2
The lectionary goes straight from Easter 1 to 2. But the story of Jesus’s appearance in the locked room is missing something.