Can We Just Keep The Nice Bits?

Welcome to Psalm 149 – the one that might turn you into a Marcionite

by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Psalm Reading: Psalm 149

For Sunday, November 7, 2010 Year C - All Saints

You gotta love a party psalm....

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It’s a Long Way to the Punch Line

Is obsessive devotion to the law something to be mocked?

by Russell Rathbun

Psalm Reading: Psalm 119

For Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010: Year C - Ordinary 29

This is a really long Psalm.

I know that's what...

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The Babylonian Shitstem

How Does the Empire Fall?

by Debbie Blue

Psalm Reading: Psalm 137

For Sunday, October 3, 2010: Year C—Ordinary 27

There’s a lot to be said for composure, self-control, and detachment. But somehow I’d...

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The King's God

In what way does God really protect us, from what is God able to keep us safe?

by Russell Rathbun

Psalm Reading: Psalm 91

For Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010: Year C - Ordinary 26

A twenty-first century...

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The Grand Paradox

Who are we? Who was he as one of us?

by Phyllis Tickle

Psalm Reading: Psalm 82

For Sunday, August 15, 2010: Year C - Ordinary 20

I have never understood the Psalms, which statement is of the “take...

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The Tension of Creation

The greatest tension is that we are created with the capacity for love and faithlessness--is faith that which exists along this dialectical line?

by Russell Rathbun

Psalm Reading: Psalm 85

For...

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The Temple We Build

Will we embrace the struggle of faith and those times when it feels like the pain will not end?

by Bruce Reyes-Chow

Psalm: Psalm 30

For Sunday, July 4, 2010: Year C - Ordinary 14

At the risk of my...

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The Bible Unconscious

How Do You Read?

Psalm 77

“Has His kindness ceased forever, have visions from Him come to and end? Have the inmost parts of God dried up?” (77:8) Up all night pacing the floor, singing, praying,...

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