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Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
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Lesson 5: The Bridegroom and the Lamb of God
Read MORE: Lesson 5: The Bridegroom and the Lamb of GodIn last week’s comments Bob asks the important question about how we should read the differences in the four gospels. Derek responds with his usual critical insights. You can read what they said and contribute your ideas on the site…
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Lesson 4: Come and See: Meeting Jesus in John 1
Read MORE: Lesson 4: Come and See: Meeting Jesus in John 1Throughout his book, John proclaims the Gospel is a love story that features the Word, a rational or spiritual principle, becoming human in order to woo his people. What was once an intellectual concept is now a human life. That…
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Lesson 3: Jesus is the Word Made Flesh (John 1)
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Jesus is the Word Made Flesh (John 1)What does John mean when he writes, “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth…From his fullness we have all…
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Lesson 2: Who Is God? (John 1)
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Who Is God? (John 1)What is John up to? Seems to me he is tackling perhaps the most difficult problem of Christianity: how to explain what it means to proclaim a human being is God. There is no way you can convey how he…
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Lesson 1: Why John’s Gospel Reads Differently
Read MORE: Lesson 1: Why John’s Gospel Reads DifferentlyAs soon as you start reading John’s Gospel, you know you are into something very different. Mark starts with a carpenter having a religious experience and leaving his business and family; Matthew with foreign scholars worshiping an infant the Jewish…
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The Sower: Proper 10 (Pentecost 8)
Read MORE: The Sower: Proper 10 (Pentecost 8)Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, “The Sower and the Setting Sun” played a very special role in my ministry. The artist wrote frequently that it was his first effort to use extravagant, bold, contrasting color to express emotion. You can almost…
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God’s Beloved: Epiphany 3a
Read MORE: God’s Beloved: Epiphany 3aThis is a very special day for me. In November 1999, I began to feel ill in the middle of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In four days, I had heart bypass surgery. For the first time in my life, I faced…
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Words, Words, Words: Proper 18B
Read MORE: Words, Words, Words: Proper 18BWhy did Jesus heal the deaf man? What went through his mind when people brought this broken soul to him? Mark indicates he was inconvenienced; not prepared for this intrusion, but he sighed deeply, took him away from the crowds…
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Hermano- The Most Dangerous Word: Proper 12B
Read MORE: Hermano- The Most Dangerous Word: Proper 12BBehave as if you believe. Part of me wants this very much, because it is the way to the fullness of God. But another part resists. “Behave as if you believe” are very dangerous words. They remind me Tennessee Williams’…
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Women in the Church, Mothers’ Day: Pentecost
Read MORE: Women in the Church, Mothers’ Day: PentecostIt is Pentecost and Mothers’ Day, a good time to remind ourselves we are in the middle of the biggest revolution of all time. It sometimes pits one half of the world’s population against the other. Thank God it is…
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I absolutely love these ideas, especially paying attention to beauty and reducing your needs.
Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…