Wrestling with the Word

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Reflections on the Common Lectionary for preaching

  1. 03/28/2011

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 109: Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A (April 10, 2011)

    Fifth Sunday in Lent I confess. I am fascinated by the discoveries of science that help us understand the development of life and the rich variety of life on earth. I also celebrate the knowledge that every life form is the way it is because it needs to be the way it is! Yet I […]

  2. 03/22/2011

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 108: Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A (April 3, 2011)

    Fourth Sunday in Lent No wonder we mortals have difficulty grasping the word of God and applying the divine address to our lives here and now. God does not fit any of the categories by which we manage our lives and the affairs of the world. The Bible makes no qualms about the differences between […]

  3. 03/20/2011

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 107: Third Sunday in Lent, Year A (March 27, 2011)

    Third Sunday in Lent We can all understand, I think, that when people of faith experience hardships in their own lives and observe the sufferings of others, they often lose their faith in the God they worshiped. Such a response is quite common among people during grief and trauma. It is more difficult to understand […]

  4. 03/15/2011

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 106: Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (March 20, 2011)

    Second Sunday in Lent Many stories tell about a journey. The Mesopotamian Gilgamesh Epic is about Gilgamesh’s long journey to attain immortality. Homer’s The Odyssey relates the trials and tribulations of Odysseus as he travels home from the Trojan battlefield. J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings dramatically relates the journey of Frodo and his […]

  5. 03/07/2011

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 105: First Sunday in Lent, Year A (March 13, 2011)

    First Sunday in Lent As I was listening over the past few weeks to some lectures on music, I became particularly interested when the teacher waxed eloquently about Pythagoras, the 6th century B.C, philosopher, mathematician, and most everything else. Pythagoras and his disciples (the Pythagoreans) developed a theory of numbers, often in terms of the […]

  6. 02/09/2011

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 104: Transfiguration of Our Lord, Year A (March 6, 2011)

    The Transfiguration of Our Lord The Sunday celebrating the Transfiguration of Our Lord has been set in a particularly strategic position. In one sense, the Sunday is also the Last Sunday after the Epiphany. In another sense, it is the transition to Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season. Typical of the Epiphany season, the Transfiguration […]

  7. 01/19/2011

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 103: Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A (January 30, 2011)

    Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany The Epiphany season challenges us to discern the meaning of symbols in order to grasp the messages about the identity of Jesus. Removed by almost two thousand years, the biblical symbols that convey this powerful news are almost exclusively words. Word symbols relate meaning, however, only in particular contexts. For […]

  8. 12/17/2010

    Wrestling with the Word, episode 102: Christmas Eve, Year A (December 24, 2010)

    Christmas Eve The birth of Jesus, and the way Luke and Matthew tell the birth stories, challenged much of the thinking of ancient times. The Christmas story, comforting and mysterious as it is, challenges us also—if we are willing to allow it. The challenge is primarily this. Thanks to worldwide influence of Plato’s philosophy, all […]

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