Walk Into the Text

When the Rabbi’s read they walk into the text. They bring themselves to it and step across the edge of the scroll, jump up onto its body, bouncing a little, believing it will hold their weight. And...

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This is Not About Welfare

by Danielle Shroyer

Epistle Reading: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

For Sunday, Novemeber 17, 2013:  Year C—Lectionary 33

There was a time when one could read this passage and not think immediately about the...

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Justice? Vengeance?

By Nanette Sawyer

Epistle Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17

For Sunday, Nov 10, 2013:  Year C—Lectionary 32

One of the reasons a text like this one is so off-putting is because of how truth has...

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