Recent Reflections on the Lectionary

• The Akedah - Kierkegaard and Protecting God

  Note:  If you haven’t already done so, you may want to read the first post in this series:
  The Akedah - The Binding of Isaac
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  Over the next few days, I will post some further reflections of mine and of others on the story of Isaac’s binding, otherwise known as the Akedah.  Perhaps the most famous of [...]

  June 23rd, 2008

• The Akedah - The Binding of Isaac

  Every three years these verse come up in the lectionary, and every time they do, I am feel drawn to them.  The power of this passage cannot be denied, and I am sure that it has occupied and troubled the minds of those who heard it ever since it was first told around campfires at [...]

  June 22nd, 2008

• The Conviction that We Are Right Disease

  In a recent interview in Relevant magazine with writer Anne Lamott, Dean Nelson asked the following question:  Does it seem odd that you worship the same God as people you criticize the most severely, namely people like George W. Bush?
  Lamott answered by saying:
  I try not to follow people who follow Jesus. We’re all screwed up [...]

  November 19th, 2007

• Reflections on Scripture: Isaiah 1:10-18

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  Isaiah 1:10-18Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight [...]

  October 29th, 2007

• The Cost of Not Forgiving

  Robert Farrar Capon is one of my favorite authors, and I am currently using his book Kingdom, Grace and Judgment in my Tuesday morning Bible study class (see link at the end of this post to get more info on the book or to order a copy of it).  If you happen to be in [...]

  August 23rd, 2007