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Seas between us Broad have Roared

Not Ready for the Darkness

Having Epistle for Christmas?

Lament and Christmas

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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?

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