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Walk Into the Text
Seas between us Broad have Roared
Not Ready for the Darkness
Having Epistle for Christmas?
Lament and Christmas
Joseph Models the Embrace of a Child Who is Radically Unlike Him
Church as Medium
Mixed Messages
In Search of an Oppressor
Merry Christmas?
Incarnation, Schmincarnation
Let’s All Get Left Behind
Common, Not...
Just, Finally, Answer the Question
The sky is falling! Everything is fine!
This is Not About Welfare
Justice? Vengeance?
Snarky Talk about Resurrection
Minister to the 1%?
Our Filthy Metaphors
Almost for All People
Self-righteous Idiots
The Relentless Widow
Jacob Fights Back
Fear Doesn’t Mean Fear, Right?
Kyrie Eleison
Indebted Faith
Doing Faith Until You Have It
How Did it Come to This?
Creating Chasms
Look Out! Here Come the Ladies, the Bishops, the Presbyters, and the Rules!
Oh, No! Is It Really Time for “The Parable of the Dishonest Servant?”
The Overlooked Woman and Her Overlooked Coins
An Archetypal Prayer of Penance...
When a Passage Does More Harm than Good
Loyalty is Overrated
You Might Be Cooking This Very Night For People Who Won’t Invite You Back
God as Master Baker
Lectionary 21 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
In Pain with God
God, Have Mercy
It Gets Better?
Asaph's Psalms: Exotic and Transgressive
Lectionary 19 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Poor Little Flock
Seeing Things that are Not Visible
Lectionary 18 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Gomer and the Metaphor of Redemption
Greed Versus Responsibility
Lectionary 17 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
All in a Name
Be Careful What You Ask For
Lectionary 16 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Let the Cat Fight Begin
Hasty Abraham
Lectionary 15 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Late-Night Theology
On Being Named "Good"
Lectionary 14 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
On Satan and Magic
Political Paul and the Foreskin Follies
Sweet Talking God
Lectionary 13 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Jesus the Jerk
Lectionary 12 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Elijah, Murderer
Begging Jesus
Lectionary 11 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Sinners Needed:
Theological Telephone Game
Lectionary 10(5) (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
How to Heal Like Jesus
Fight, Flight and Freeze
Lectionary 9(4) (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Nature’s Doxology
The Centurion’s Friends
Trinity Sunday (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
High Praise from Heaven
Are We There Yet?
Less Than Satisfactory
You Don’t Take Pentecost Seriously
Easter 7 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Paul and Silas’ European Adventure
What about the Mystical Union?
Easter 6 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Not As the World Gives
Christian Wanderlust
Easter 5 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Love One Another, For God's Sake!
Heaven is Descent
Easter 4 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
The Real Palm Sunday
Questioners, Beware
Easter 3 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Put Your Sword in its Sheath
Surface, Depth and History
Easter 2 (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Less Faith
Our Brother Gamaliel
Easter Sunday (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Justice Delayed 1.0
Justice Delayed 2.0
Palm Sunday(C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun
Gentle Jesus Meek and Mad
Said the Joker to the Thief...
Lent 5(C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Springs in the Wilderness
The Poor Will Always Be With You
Grumbling About Love
Lent 4(C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Boasting in the Heart
Lent 3(C) - In two parts with Rathbun and Stenberg
Crushed (Another View)!
Crushed!
Our Own Scary Movie
Slow Your Roll, Jesus!
Lent 2(C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
Lent 1(C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Rev. Dr. Mark Stenberg
The Devil Tried to Make Me Do It
THQ'n the Season
Transfiguration (C) - Rev. Russell Rathbun and Dr. Mark Stenberg
Hammering it Home
A Veiled Question
Postmodern Prophets
Jesus, Undomesticated
Year C—Epiphany 3 Video Response
The Secret, Intimate Work
Visiting Prisons
Year C—Epiphany 2 Video Response
STAY TUNED - WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.
I Wish Jesus Was at My Wedding
Supernatural Vending Machine
My Comment is SPAM!?! What the...
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The Jerusalem Holy Spirit Police
Year C—Epiphany Video Response
Go to the Light!
The Madness of King Herod
Year C—Christmas 1 Video Response
Fruit Trees and Sea Monsters
Searching for the Teenage Jesus
Year C—Advent 4 Video Response
Do you remember Midge?
Lechem Dimah
Year C—Advent 3 Video Response
Rejoice Now or Later?
Morpheus, I mean John…
Year C—Advent 2 Video Response
Hot, Hot, Hot
Zack’s Boy
The End of the World
Year C—Advent 1 Video Response
A Breath of Fresh Air
Making Friends with Strange Cats
Papa’s Got a Brand New Bible
What is Truth?
Year B—Christ the King Video Response
All Hail, Christ the King!
They All Come Tumbling Down
Year B—Ordinary 33 Video Response
All That Glitters May or May Not Be Gold
Year B—Ordinary 32 Video Response
Little Women
Blood from a Turnip
Year B - Ordinary 31 Video Response
Say What?
DiscipleNow!
When Job doesn’t Jibe with Reality
Searching for a Miracle
This is Not an Answer
The Curse of the Really Great Text
Leather Swords and Lacy Handbags
Inheriting Eternal Life
Year B - Ordinary 28 Video Response
Whatever God has Pulled Apart
Year B - Ordinary 27 Video Response
Jesus Questions the Text
Year B - Ordinary 26 Video Response
Oh Look, Power Grabbing Again
If This is a Pep Talk, I Give It an “F”
Year B - Ordinary 25 Video Response
Children in the Center of the Assembly
Wisdom
Year B - Ordinary 24 Video Response
Real World: Galilee
Brains, Reins and a Tiller
Jesus Getting Caught with His Compassion Down
Is The Book of James Proto-Marxist?
Year B - Ordinary 22 Video Response
Praise Messiah
External Rituals of the Elite
Fleshy Life
Wisdom and Justice
Year B - Ordinary 21 Video Response
You Are What You Eat
Where is the Love?
Year B - Ordinary 20 Video Response
Year B - Ordinary 19 Video Response
An Ocean of Tears
Is “Jesus Bread” Gluten Free?