Malachi 4:1–2a
Hot, Hot, Hot!
Lectionary Date: November 13, 2022 [23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rosy finds a wealth of sermon material in a very short text.
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Job 19:23–27a
Resurrection or Stubbornness?
Lectionary Date: November 6, 2022 [22nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Tim tries to pull the lectionary reading back into its context.
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Daniel 7:1–3, 15–18
Enthroned over the Monsters
Lectionary Date: November 1, 2022 [All Saints Day, Year C]
Rosy explores the strange imagery of Daniel’s vision.
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Joel 2:23–32, with Mari Joerstad
The Many Days of the Lord
Lectionary Date: October 23, 2022 [20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Locusts? Armies? Shame, vindication, and salvation? Peter’s speech at Pentecost? There is a ton going on in this short reading. This week, Rosy and Tim are joined by Dr. Mari Joerstad, Academic Dean and Professor of Hebrew Bible at Vancouver School of Theology. Dr. Joerstad’s work focuses on issues of environment, land, migration, and belonging in the Hebrew Bible. A native of Norway, she did her doctoral work at Duke University in North Carolina, where she studied with one of our favorites, Professor Ellen Davis. Today’s passage from Joel is full of images of the land and ecology, so we’re especially grateful to have Mari’s expertise and insight for this conversation. She is the author of The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics: Humans, Non-Humans, and the Living Landscape, published by Cambridge in 2020. You can also find her published work in a number of academic journals, including The Journal of Biblical Literature, Horizons in Biblical Theology, and The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.
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Genesis 32:22–31
Wrestling in the Ambiguity
Lectionary Date: October 16, 2022 [19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rosy takes us deep into a story of messy encounter with God.
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2 Kings 5:1–3, 7–15c
Finding Her Voice
Lectionary Date: October 9, 2022 [18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rachel calls our attention to the true (unsung) hero of this story.
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Habakkuk 1:1–4; 2:1–4
Questions without Answers
Lectionary Date: October 2, 2022 [17th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rosy connects Habakkuk’s battery of questions to a traumatic historical context.
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Amos 6:1a, 4–7
The Law as Gospel
Lectionary Date: September 25, 2022 [16th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Hoi! Rachel reads the prophet Amos giving an invitation to a different perspective on “comfort.”
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Amos 8:4–7
Selling the Poor for a Pair of Sandals
Lectionary Date: September 18, 2022 [15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rosy challenges our spending habits (and their human cost) as she channels the prophet Amos.
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Exodus 32:7–14
Changing God’s Mind?
Lectionary Date: September 11, 2022 [14th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Tim explores some curious biblical “intertextuality” in this week’s lection.
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