Revised Common Lectionary Page for 24 October 2010 (22nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Joel 2:23-32 and Psalm 65 • Sirach 35:12-17 or Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 and Psalm 84:1-7 •…

Susan McWilliams laments that Modern Family has benefits that actual modern life has stripped away from most families. Patrick Deneen wonders whether 18th-century liberalism had inherent in its project the…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 17 October 2010 (21st Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Psalm 119:97-104 •  Genesis 32:22-31 and Psalm 121 •  2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 • …

Gain some perspective on the sizes of things in the universe. Gain some perspective on the relative volumes of communications traffic. The Kindlings Muse has another great lecture from one…

Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life. By Ed Cyzewski 233 pp. NavPress. $14.99. I have to admit that I enjoyed reading an optimistic book, even one whose optimism…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 10 October 2010 (20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Psalm 66:1-12 • 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Psalm 111 • 2…

An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible By Walter Brueggemann. 212 pp. Fortress Press. $22.00. I first encountered Walter Brueggemann’s project as a senior at Milligan College, but…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 26 September 2010 (18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 • Amos 6:1a, 4-7 and Psalm 146 • 1…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 19 September 2010 (17th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Psalm 79:1-9 • Amos 8:4-7 and Psalm 113 • 1 Timothy 2:1-7 •…

Music this week is “Isn’t That What Friends Are For?” from Bruce Cockburn’s 1999 album Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. General Introduction – What’s on the blog? –…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 12 September 2010 (16th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 and Psalm 14 • Exodus 32:7-14 and Psalm 51:1-10 • 1 Timothy 1:12-17…

In an effort to be more like every other blog, we’re going to start having an occasional post of links to interesting articles. Our debut installment: Why Glenn Beck isn’t…

Colors of God: Conversations about Being the Church. By Randall Mark Peters, Dave Phillips, and Quentin Steen. 231 pp. Authentic.  $15. Three years have passed now since I stopped posting…

This week’s music is the 1982 Daniel Amos classic “The Double,” one of the few songs I know about Platonism. It’s crazy out of print (and just crazy), so it…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 5 September 2010 (15th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 18:1-11 and Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 • Deuteronomy 30:15-20 and Psalm 1 • Philemon 1-21 •…