Lectionary for April 3, 2022 Fifth Sunday in Lent Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:4b-14; John 12:1-8 Have you ever been part of something profoundly special that was nearly spoiled…
Michael Plekon served for 40 years as a minister in both the Western and Eastern churches, initially as an ELCA pastor and later as a priest in the Orthodox Church…
Lectionary for March 27, 2022 Fourth Sunday in Lent Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 When the study group I was leading turned to the passage…
Lectionary for March 20, 2022 Third Sunday in Lent Isaiah 55:1-9; Psalm 63:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 Lent is frequently thought of as a sort of wilderness period as…
Lectionary for March 13, 2022 Second Sunday in Lent Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Psalm 27; Philippians 3:17–4:1; Luke 13:31-35 Genesis 15 is one of my favorite passages to teach because it…
The season of Lent is when I’m able to embrace Jesus as my brother perhaps more than at any other time in the liturgical year. I enter into the wilderness…
Lectionary blog: March 6, 2022 First Sunday in Lent Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13 This week I’d like to focus on the lectionary reading from Deuteronomy….
At no other time in recent memory have Americans been so polarized on almost every issue. The divisiveness is taking its toll on our personal relationships, our community spirit, our…
As the pandemic eases its grip on our world, life is settling into a new normal that may spell difficulty to many churches. People who stayed away from congregational life…
Lectionary blog for Feb 27, 2022 Transfiguration of our Lord Last Sunday after Ephiphany Exodus 34:29-35; Psalm 99; 2 Corinthians 3:12–4:2; Luke 9:28-36 The Christian traditions around this time of…
After the murder of George Floyd and the calls for racial justice that followed, Connie Ryan, executive director for the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, began gathering faith leaders from across…
Eric Krewson wrote most of his band’s new album while living in a 6-by-6-foot shack in the Cascade Mountains in fall 2019. The frontman and lead songwriter of the Philadelphia…
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