Revised Common Lectionary Page for 18 March 2012 (Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B) Numbers 21:4-9  • Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22  • Ephesians 2:1-10  • John 3:14-21 I don’t preach from Paul often, perhaps…

Especially when the government dictates that the whole nation must get up an hour earlier every morning!  World War One is over, folks!  Down with Daylight Saving!

Martin Luther Insult Generator Cicero on Presidential Campaigning The Ideal of the Christian Humanist Douglas Groothius on why abortion is still a live issue Fred Sanders on the dramatic roots…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 4 March 2012 (Second Sunday of Lent, Year B) Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16  •  Psalm 22:23-31  •  Romans 4:13-25  •  Mark 8:31-38 or Mark 9:2-9 When plain speech follows chapters of parabolic teaching, a…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 26 February 2012 (First Sunday of Lent, Year B) Genesis 9:8-17  •  Psalm 25:1-10  •  1 Peter 3:18-22  •  Mark 1:9-15 When I do preach this on Sunday, I’m going to…

Slavoj Žižek on some changes in capitalism that Karl Marx did not anticipate Some prognostications on the future of higher education in America: depressing or invigorating? College sports, Derrida, and Homer’s…

Good question.  As some of you (my Facebook contacts, certainly) know, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation yesterday afternoon, bringing a LONG grad student career to an end.  (To be…

Alright, folks.  I’m kinda defending my doctoral dissertation tomorrow, so there might be a lectionary post later this week, or the next one might go live next Monday.  Either way,…

Nathan Gilmour is only familiar with two of Alex Preston’s top ten literary believers.  How many do you know? C.S. Lewis the lover of old books Thomas Frank (whom Gilmour…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 12 February 2012 (Sixth Sunday of Advent, Year B) 2 Kings 5:1-14  • Psalm 30  • 1 Corinthians 9:24-27  • Mark 1:40-45 2 Kings 5 begins with an assertion that YHWH…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 5 February 2012 (Fifth Sunday of Epiphany, Year B) Isaiah 40:21-31  • Psalm 147:1-11, 20c  • 1 Corinthians 9:16-23  • Mark 1:29-39 This week’s gospel reading is one…

Erasmus and the plundering of Egyptian gold Good advice for parents of young children (with Greek words!) What kind of school teacher makes that kind of money? An anti-Creationist take…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 22 January 2012 (Third Sunday of Epiphany, Year B) Jonah 3:1-5, 10  • Psalm 62:5-12  • 1 Corinthians 7:29-31  • Mark 1:14-20 The way I read the Bible has changed over…

Jesus > Religion on YouTube I didn’t want to watch this video.  I certainly didn’t want to write about it.  But after it appeared for the eighth time or so…