"That'll Preach!": a lectionary podcast A Plain Account

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Our prayer this week is from Jan Richardson’s Circle of Grace


We highly recommend Jerusha Neal’s Overshadowed Preacher


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How to Eat Together as a Church, a webinar with Rev. Pardue and N4CC
Jewish Voices for Peace on zionism.
Our texts this week are ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ 


Our prayer this week is from Jan Richardson in Circle of Grace, a Book of Blessings for the Seasons


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Our prayer this week is “For Breaking Bread with Others” from ⁠Feminist Prayers for My Daughter by Shannon K. Evans ⁠


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Our prayer this week is “For A Faith Community” from Feminist Prayers for My Daughter by Shannon K. Evans 
A quick review of the historical context for eunuchs in the ancient world: https://www.britannica.com/topic/eunuch 
Two ancient references worth considering that highlight the non-binary reality of eunuchs: The first one is from St. Augustine who describes castrated eunuchs as “neither changed into a woman nor allowed to remain a man” (City of God 7.24). The other comes from the Tosefta (a Jewish commentary on the Mishnah), which applies *both* male and female laws to the eunuchs. 
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Our prayer this week is “We Are Baffled” from Awed To Heaven, Rooted in Earth by Walter Breuggemann 

N. T. Wright quote from Surprised By Hope: “Once we get the resurrection straight, we can and must get mission straight. […] People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present” (Surprised by Hope 193, 214). […] And if we believe it and pray, as he taught us, for God’s kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven, there is no way we can rest with major injustice in the world. […] The final putting to rights of everything does indeed wait for the last day. We must therefore avoid the arrogance or triumphalism of… imagining that we can build the kingdom by our own efforts without the need for a further divine act of new creation. But we must agree… that doing justice in the world is part of the Christian task” (Surprised by Hope 213, 215, 216). Indeed, the prophet Micah reminds us: “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8, NIV). 

Here’s a review from Tim Wildsmith (The Bible Review Blog) of the GBA bible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6TVa7scKM 

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Our texts this week are here 

Our prayer this week is from Liturgies For Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore – “A Liturgy For Those Embracing the Mystery of Faith” 

Disability Theology: My Body is Not A Prayer Request, by Amy Kenny 

N. T. Wright quote from Surprised By Hope: “Once we get the resurrection straight, we can and must get mission straight. […] People who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present” (Surprised by Hope 193, 214). […] And if we believe it and pray, as he taught us, for God’s kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven, there is no way we can rest with major injustice in the world. […] The final putting to rights of everything does indeed wait for the last day. We must therefore avoid the arrogance or triumphalism of… imagining that we can build the kingdom by our own efforts without the need for a further divine act of new creation. But we must agree… that doing justice in the world is part of the Christian task” (Surprised by Hope 213, 215, 216). Indeed, the prophet Micah reminds us: “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8, NIV). 

Padraig O'Tuama reads a poem from Illia Kaminsky on the Poetry Unbound podcast: “We Lived Happily During The War”

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