Job's Reply to YHWH - Reflections on Job 42:1-6, 10-17, Proper 25 Year B
Lectionary Reflections on Job 42:1-6, 10-17, Proper 25 Year B
The Lively Lectionary Old Testament is a blog that reflects on the Old Testament text from the Revised Common Lectionary each week.
YHWH's Reply = Reflections on Job 38:1-7, (34-41), Proper 24 Year B
Lectionary Reflections on Job 38:1-7 (34-41), Proper 24 Year B
The Traditional God Rejected - Reflections on Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Proper 22 Year B
Lectionary Reflections on Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Proper 22 Year B
Is This the God We Know? - Reflections on Job 2, Proper 22 Year B
Lectionary Reflection on Job 2
Who Knows? - Reflections on Esther, Proper 21 Year B
Lectionary Reflections on Esther
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The Worthy, Vigorous, Substantial Woman - Reflections on Proverbs 31:10-31, Proper 20 Year B
Lectionary Reflections on Proverbs 31:10-31, Proper 20 Year B, October 22, 2024
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Of Wise Ones and Dolts - Reflections on Proverbs 1:20-33, Proper 19, Year B
Reflections on First Testament Reading for Proper 19, Year B, September 15, 2024
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Life’s Realities Questioned - Reflections on Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 for Proper 18, Year B
Lectionary commentary for Sept 8, 2024.
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The Dangers of Simplistic Religion - Reflections on 1 Kings 8 for Proper 16, Year B
Lectionary Reflections, Proper 16, Year B
Long Live the King! - Reflections on 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 for Proper 15, Year B
Reflections on 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 for Proper 15, Year B
A Complex King - Reflections on 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
The figure of David is among the finest literary portrayals in the ancient world, as I have tried to prove in the preceding weeks of our too brief look at the man. Today is no exception, as our fabulous narrator offers to us a David rather more complex than we may have imagined him to be.
The Payment Comes Due - Reflections on 2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a
What happens in this passage today demonstrates one of the Bible’s crucial truths: human power and will have decided limitations in the face of the power of YHWH.
