Texas education officials are considering adding passages and books from the Bible to required reading lists for students, The New York Times first reported. The proposed reading list from the Texas State Board of Education…
Acts 2.14a, 22-32; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1.3-9; John 20.19-31 IN JOHN, seeing and rejoicing go hand in hand. When the disciples “see”— in other words, when they discern what is true — then they “rejoice”. With two earlier…
Acts 10.34-43 or Jeremiah 31.1-6; Psalm 118.1-2,14-24; Colossians 3.1-4 or Acts 10.34-43; John 20.1-18 or Matthew 28.1-10IN MATTHEW’s resurrection Gospel, Mary Magdalene and another Mary go to the tomb. This is a variation on…
Isaiah 52.13-53.12; Psalm 22; Hebrews 4.14-16; 5.7-9; John 18.1-19.42THE Passion is action-packed. People move from scene to scene: garden, prison, palace, hillside. There is violence and cruelty: scourging, mockery, shame.…
Liturgy of the Palms: Matthew 21.11Liturgy of the Passion: Isaiah 50.4-9a; Psalm 31.9-16 (31.9-18); Philippians 2.5-11; Matthew 25.14-end of 27 (Matthew 27.11-54)“LOOK, the man!” (John 19.5). On Good Friday, Jesus will hold…
Ezekiel 37.1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8.6-11; John 11.1-45THIS is the third Sunday in a row in which John’s Gospel reveals something about divine truth through Jesus’s interactions with women. Two weeks ago, it was a Samaritan…
Exodus 2.1-10 or 1 Samuel 1.20-end; Psalm 34.11-20 or 127.1-4.2; Corinthians 1.3-7 or Colossians 3.12-17; Luke 2.33-35 or John 19.25b-27 IF LAST week’s Gospel was one of the longest in the lectionary, this one must be the…
Exodus 17.1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5.1-11; John 4.5-42 THIS Gospel is the longest set for a principal service outside Passiontide. Length alone tells us that the message must be important, must be taken as a whole, and must be…
Genesis 12.1-4a; Psalm 121; Romans 4.1-5, 13-17; John 3.1-17JOHN the Evangelist does not do homely chit-chat. I cannot imagine him (or the other Evangelists) reporting a conversation between Jesus and his followers about the…
Genesis 2.15-17, 3.1-7; Psalm 32; Romans 5.12-19; Matthew 4.1-11OUT of the 66 books of the Bible, 27 are in the New Testament. I know that now because, when it was a question on the quiz programme, Only Connect, I…
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