Revised Common Lectionary Page for 14 April 2013 (3rd Week of Easter, Year C) Acts 9:1-6, (7-20) • Psalm 30 • Revelation 5:11-14 • John 21:1-19 I suppose I could blame my own blindness with regards to Acts 9 on years of Sunday school lessons and sermons, on individualistic conversion stories modeled on Paul’s and my own tendency to neglect the…
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Struggling with God: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 15 July 2012
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 15 July 2012 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 and Psalm 24 • Amos 7:7-15 and Psalm 85:8-13 • Ephesians 1:3-14 • Mark 6:14-29 This week’s Old Testament reading is one of those passages that brings with it all sorts of temptations for a reader: one could easily dismiss the death of Uzzah as “primitive religion,” the sort of thing…