I’m back! It’s been a while since I posted. If you read my Monday Meditations regularly, I am sorry for not being there for you this past month or so, and I thank you for your patience. A few days in the hospital to finally resolve an infection (not my first trip there this year) […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 13th Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 18(23), Luke 14:25-33
Pity the lectionary preacher this week. Luke 14:25-33 is some of Jesus’ hardest teaching. You can count on a whole lot of scrambling in pulpits across the country to say that Jesus just couldn’t have meant what he said. All those hermeneutical gyrations can make you worry your orbit is out of balance. (But really […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 12th Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 17(22), Luke 14:1, 7-14
I’m going to really try to be brief today. I’m recovering from surgery and, though health and energy are coming, the progress is slow. Luke 14:1, 7-14 The scene is a Pharisee’s house on the Sabbath. Jesus & co. are there for a meal — a banquet, it seems, with many guests. The lectionary cuts […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 11th Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 16(21), Luke 13:10-17
Sunday’s Gospel takes a chunk out of the middle of Luke 13. The parts before and after came up already this year as part of Jesus’ stern teaching during Lent. It’s good to keep that in mind: This relatively mild story is framed by serious warnings, issued as part of Jesus’ determined journey to Jerusalem […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year C, 10th Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 15(20), Luke 12:49-56
The lectionary skips a bit to give us Luke 12:49-56. Preachers who have taken a look are probably glad about that. The omitted part was Jesus discussion of the need to be the kind of servant who keeps watch for the master’s return. This time he weighed in on the scale of punishments for various […]
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