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Between Easter 4 + 5 (Year A)
There is some serious material in the gospel narrative before we get to John 14 this week that informs what we’re reading.
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The Time of Temptation
In the Passion, we receive a story of innocence murdered. But that story’s foundation is all so much temptation.
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Palm Sunday is a Head Trip
Celebrating Palm Sunday forces us to recognize what responsibility we have. And what responsibility we pretend we don’t have.
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Hope and Generosity
The strangeness of the Palm and the Passion is that they enter into a mystery we long for and refuse equally.
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Between: Jumping past the passion to the crucifixion
The way we talk about the passion and crucifixion of Jesus leaves out half of the story. The half of the story that has the most meaning.
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Jesus and the Dishonest Questioners
When Jesus is confronted in Jerusalem by the Sadducees, they ask a convoluted question about the afterlife. So Jesus changes the conversation.
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Between: From Authentic Disciples to Confronting the Lying Liars
A look at the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Proper 26C and Proper 27C. The text: Luke 19:11-20:26. For those who may have transferred All Saints to Sunday, the story from Proper 26C is Luke 19:1-10—the one in which Zacchaeus climbs a tree. For the congregation, this is a capstone on…
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Revealing the way of death
Luke makes it clear Jesus doesn’t “deserve” the crucifixion. Not only to maintain Jesus’s innocence but prove the moral corruption of execution.