Servant or Child?

How Do We Understand Our Relationship With God?

by Carol Howard Merritt

Psalm Reading: Psalm 116

For Sunday, May 8, 2011: Year A - Easter 3

I read The Handmaid's Tale when I was in college. I’m a...

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Incarnation, Revelation or Disorientation

Why Didn’t They Recognize Jesus?

by Carol Howard Merritt

Gospel Reading: Luke 24:13-35

For Sunday, May 8, 2011: Year A - Easter 3

I was reaching for the handle of the lobby door when I saw the back...

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Exiles in the Empire of Capital

Is there an oppression and a suffering so internalized that we do not even recognize it as suffering?

by Russell Rathbun

Epistle Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9

For Sunday, May 1 , 2011: Year A - Easter 2

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No Body Loves Me

How do we preach our faith as physical and alive when the Body we are supposed to love is nowhere to be found?

by Russell Rathbun

Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31

For Sunday, May 1 , 2011: Year A -...

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He Said These Things to Her

Why is it still so hard for women to get equal pulpit time in so many churches?

by Dave Buerstetta

Gospel Reading: John 20:1-18

For Sunday, Apr. 24, 2011: Year A – Resurrection of Our Lord

I don’t...

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Finding a New Lead-Off Hitter

How am I subverting God’s subversion of exclusivity?

by Dave Buerstetta

New Testament Reading: Acts 10:34-43

For Sunday, Apr. 24, 2011: Year A – Resurrection of Our Lord

With all due respect (isn’t...

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Preaching In The Key of Life

Does our preaching really speak to the real-life struggles of those to whom we preach?

by Stephen G. Marsh

Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 50:4-9a

For Sunday, April 17, 2011: Year A – PassionSunday

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The Art of Surrender

Can we be authentic followers of Jesus without engaging in the art of surrender?

by Stephen G. Marsh

Gospel Reading: Matthew 26:14 – 27:66

For Sunday, April 17, 2011:  Year A – Passion Sunday

I am...

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Circuitous Story

Isn’t it wiser to accept the inevitable? 

by Mike Stavlund 

Gospel Reading:  John 11:1-45

For Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011:  Year A - Lent 5  

I've always been a Matthew Man. My beloved Gospel writer is...

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Foreshadowing

Is our flesh so bad?

by Mike Stavlund 

Epistle Reading:  Romans 8:6-11

For Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011:  Year A - Lent 5  

Resurrection is everywhere this week. Lazarus rises, the Psalmist cries out from...

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