I’m really psyched to announce that I’m offering a new online prayer class through this website. I’m calling it “Pray Like a Reformer,” and registration is open through Friday October 12, 2018. Pray Like a Reformer Martin Luther and John Calvin were both passionate about prayer. They both thought it was basic to the authentic […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 9:38-50
Some passages seem intended to make us puzzle out which way to go. That’s okay. Study and meditation are holy processes, and they often bring clarity. Week by week I find I’m struck by what one might call the “texture” of Mark’s Gospel. There is a big difference between the sweeping big picture and the […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 9:30-37
On the 25th Sunday of Ordinary time the lectionary skips ahead most of a chapter to Mark 9:30-37. (A little bit of the skipped part came up earlier in the year: Mark 9:2-9 was the Gospel for the last Sunday before Lent, the Transfiguration.) Last week in chapter 8 Jesus started predicting his passion and […]
Monday Meditation: RCL Year B, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 8:27-38
Most of this Sunday’s lectionary Gospel is making its second appearance this year: The 2nd Sunday of Lent gave us Mark 8:31-38 The 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time has Mark 8:27-38. (Mark 8:1-26 is left out in the cold, alas. I consider this an enormous loss. I’ll have to write on it some day — […]
Letters to a Young Pastor: Choosing a Field Education Placement (part 2)
Dear ______: Okay, glad to hear that you are closing in on a Field Education position for the coming term. I promised to write again with a couple further thoughts, so here you go. Choosing a field education position, take two Last time I recommended making sure you serve in both a large church and […]
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