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 B, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 5:21-43
The Revised Common Lectionary skips the evocative story of Legion and his many demons, and their demise in a herd of pigs who could not swim, much less fly. (Luke’s version will come up in Year C.) Instead we skip ahead on the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time to Mark 5:21-43, another “sandwich passage.” As […]