Tag: Mark 2

  • Between Trinity Sunday + Proper 4 (Year B)

    Between Trinity Sunday + Proper 4 (Year B)

    Our move back to Ordinary Time means we pick up the narrative near the beginning. Here’s a refresher on what we’ve missed.

  • To Save Life Or To Kill

    To Save Life Or To Kill

    To Save Life Or To Kill (Day 10 of A Simple Lent) My absolute favorite part of Jesus’s teaching is his few teachings about Sabbath. I think dealing with them is an essential part of understanding Jesus. Sabbath law is at the core of Torah. The literal observance of the Sabbath day is important. More important,…

  • New Wineskins

    New Wineskins

    New Wineskins (Day 9 of A Simple Lent) One of the most familiar passages in scripture is Jesus’s famous line about not putting new wine into old wineskins. It’s one of those images with which I was always familiar, but it never fit in with my world. I mean, how many of us have a wineskin?…