Lectionary Date: August 10, 2025 [9th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rosy traces the theme of faith through all of this week’s readings.
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Lectionary Date: August 3, 2025 [8th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Tim’s turn to point out a tension between Qohelet’s wisdom and Jesus’s parable.
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Lectionary Date: July 27, 2025 [7th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rachel’s back with the next (and very different) installment of the Abraham story.
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Lectionary Date: July 20, 2025 [6th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rachel’s turn for a quick episode, this time on a divine visit to Abraham and Sarah!
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Lectionary Date: July 13, 2025 [5th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Paul again, bringing out the boldness of Amos’s message.
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Lectionary Date: July 6, 2025 [4th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Paul is up with a brief reflection on the power dynamics in this week’s Old Testament lectionary readings.
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Lectionary Date: June 29, 2025 [3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rosy is back again with a few thoughts about “commitment issues” in this week’s readings.
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Lectionary Date: June 22, 2025 [2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C]
Rosy kicks off our summer series with some thoughts on Isaiah, Luke, and the Psalm.
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Lectionary Date: June 15, 2025 [Trinity Sunday, Year C]
The lectionary gives us Proverbs 8—a poem about Woman Wisdom—as the text for Trinity Sunday. We couldn’t get our calendars to align to record a new episode this week, so to tide you over until next week, here are a couple past episodes on this fascinating biblical text!
And if you’re interested in the Psalm for the week (Psalm 8), you might like this recent episode on God’s “fingerwork”:
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