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I am sorry that there will be no Bible post this week.  This weekend I preached at Athens Christian Church’s Sunday morning service, and rather than write my weekly Bible post (which I normally do on Sunday morning while the kids are asleep), I gave my sermon one more, much-needed revision.  The congregation at Athens Christian thanks you–they didn’t have to suffer through the Friday version of the homily.

Tune in next Monday, though–the Bible posts will keep rolling in!

Hey, you’re gonna get another episode soon.  Stop looking like the world just ended.  For reasons personal, professional, horticultural, stereotypical, fractal, nonsensical, or more than one of the above, the Christian Humanist Podcast will be coming back next Tuesday for our promised episode on Asceticism.  Until then, read around on the blog, reread that Platonic dialogue you’ve been promising yourself you’d revisit, watch an episode of The Wire, or do something else that keeps your rational faculties in shape for the next episode.

But before you do that, go ahead over to iTunes and tell the Apple-loving world about this show, post a link to us on your Facebook wall, or do something else to get some more intelligent, literate, discerning, beautiful people on board–the more of us are in this conversation, the better!

Dearest listeners, we do apologize.  Circumstances being what circumstances are, Boethius’s wheel done turned on us.

My apologies to our readers who have come to expect a reflection on the lectionary texts.  I preached yesterday in Sunday morning service at Athens Christian Church, and I chose to put the time that I normally put into the lectionary post for the coming week instead into the sermon that I delivered.  I might post a comment here about how it went and such, but for now, here are the links to next Sunday’s texts:

Hosea 1:2-10 and Psalm 85 • Genesis 18:20-32 and Psalm 138 • Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19) • Luke 11:1-13

I encourage folks to go to Vanderbilit’s Revised Common Lectionary page for next Sunday and read the texts, but a room full of third- and fourth-graders have already stolen my brain for this week.  I’ll try to write my next lectionary post from the road in Indiana.

By the way, if any of our readers wants to bring any kids to Athens Christian Church‘s VBS this year, it’s happening this week, at 6:30 every night.  The theme, as the graphic indicates, is rain forest, and every evening’s opening session features a certain Christian humanist as the front man in a skit that hopefully will never find itself recorded on digital media, unless indeed Heaven sees fit to punish him for some of his sins here and now.

Look for genuine intellectual content from the other humanists this week, and stay tuned for our next special summer podcast, this one featuring guest host Dan Dawson, an old friend of mine and a real live tornado chaser!

Revised Common Lectionary Readings for 1 May 2010 (Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C)

Acts 11:1-18 • Psalm 148 • Revelation 21:1-6 • John 13:31-35

A thousand apologies to our Christian Humanist readers for my lack of a lectionary post for this week.  With the end of the semester closing fast, I simply do not have even the small spare time that this post requires of me every week.  Look for this series to start back up Monday, and forgive an overwhelmed and underproductive sinner.