On the day of Pentecost in Year A, the alternate Gospel reading is John 7:37-39. John 7:37-39 I’ve previously written on the primary Gospel reading for the day, John 20:19-23, when it was paired with the story of Jesus’ kind revelation to “doubting Thomas” (once in 2020, and once in 2019). This year, Pentecost happens […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Easter 7, John 17:1-11
If it feels like you heard Sunday’s lectionary Gospel in church recently, maybe you are having a flashback to this time last year. Or the year before. Or any other year. On the 7th Sunday of Easter, the lectionary always gives us one chunk or another of John 17. It is a chapter of Scripture […]
Next Up in the Reading Group: Gregory of Nyssa’s “Life of Moses”
Introducing… My Online Reading Group For a while now I’ve been developing a project that I’m finding to be really fun. It is an online reading group on topics in Church history and theology. I pick a subject (with input from the members) and one or more relevant cool texts from the history of Christianity. […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Easter 6, John 14:15-21
On the sixth Sunday of Easter of the lectionary, the Gospel continues in the same passage as last week. John 14:15-21 The scene is the upper room on Maundy Thursday. Jesus has already washed his disciples’ feet and given them the “new commandment” to love one another as he has loved them. Now, and in […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year A, Easter 5, John 14:1-14
For the fifth Sunday of Easter in “Year A,” the lectionary moves, perhaps inscrutably, to Maundy Thursday. John 14:1-14 This week’s text is John 14:1-14. In the previous chapter, Jesus washed the disciples’ feet and gave them the “new commandment.” In the following chapter, he will tell them that he is the vine and they […]
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