Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 February 2011 (5th Sunday of Epiphany, Year A) Isaiah 58:1-9a (9b-12) • Psalm 112:1-9 (10) • 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16) • Matthew 5:13-20 I’ll…

David Brooks presents a case for disagreeing and meaning it without calling one’s interlocutors ugly names. Walter Brueggemann calls for more emphasis on public Scripture-reading on Sunday mornings. Some praise…

My pilgrim soul once undertook A journey of the mind To Hindustan, the mythic East The truth of things to find. Of blind men once a rhyme I’d heard Whose…

Season four begins with a bang! General Introduction – Welcome to Season 4 – David remains transient – Michial and his dissertation – That .01 episode from December – What’s…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 30 January 2011 (Fourth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A) Micah 6:1-8 • Psalm 15 • 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 • Matthew 5:1-12 When I started in…

Stanley Fish notes the similarities in the right-wing and left-wing criticisms of the modern university. Patrick Deneen calls for public liberal arts education, not careerist college education, for all citizens.…

Howdy, readers. I should have noted this back when I was tooting our horn for the recognition we received, but new every Christian Humanist Blog post has, at the bottom…

Revised Common Lectionary Readings for 23 January 2011 (Third Sunday after Epiphany, Year A) Isaiah 9:1-4 • Psalm 27:1, 4-9 • 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 • Matthew 4:12-23 I’ll admit that…

Happy [redacted]th birthday to our co-host, David Grubbs! (He can tell you how old he is if he’d like to do so, but I’m not touching it.) Obviously, our podcast…

(Yeah, I’m proud of that title.) Who should determine the course of Christian theology–pastors or professors? (I guess no one’s arguing for bloggers or, um, English teachers.) A model for…

I know of no book more convicting than Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship; read this book closely and seriously enough, and you will likely have to stop calling yourself…

We’ve started to garner some recognition from other sites.  Anne, from Anne is a Man! (a podcast review site) gave us a good review back at the end of December.…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 9 January 2011 (First Sunday of Epiphany, Year A) Isaiah 42:1-9 • Psalm 29 • Acts 10:34-43 • Matthew 3:13-17 I’ll confess that I’ve stopped…