Revised Common Lectionary Reflection, Trinity Sunday, Year A, June 7, 2020
What might it look like today to really be the Beloved Community, an expression of church and society that includes all people in just and equitable decisions affecting life, opportunity, and wellbeing? What kind of “Body” does Christ want us to be for him now? What is the Spirit saying to the church? (Photo: Jason Hargrove, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection for Pentecost Sunday Year A, May 31, 2020
I sense, hear, and read about a collective weariness from friends and colleagues. The struggle is real. Come, Holy Spirit! We need your Pentecost winds to blow through our homes and hearts. We need to be equipped, reminded, and then booted into a new reality to actually BE the Body of Christ, the Church for this time. (Photo: Dale Martin, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A, May 24, 2020.
Jesus “tags” his closest followers as ITs, as itinerant travelers (aka disciples) through this world bearing his love, seeing through his eyes, caring with his open arms, and grounded by his feet moving in prayer and action. It’s our turn now, and we are being equipped and are never alone. We are the ITs of our time and place. We’ve been tagged. We have holy work to do. (Photo: Public.Resource.org, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C, May 17, 2020
Jesus makes it sound pretty simple: Show our love by keeping Jesus’ commandments. This is how you show your love to me, he says. This is how folks will know you are different, by your love and by the way you live out that love in a hundred little ways every single day. (Photo: Elvert Barnes, Creative Commons)
RCL Reflection, Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A, May 10, 2020
Spirit-led and Jesus-fed, we can choose to march out of our COVID-19 sheltering as true resurrection people, the beloved community set loose in the world to do the work of Christ. The alternative is to fall backward into a reality that no longer exists, into despair and defeat. So let’s be bold, and all-in! (Photo: Becker1999, Creative Commons)
Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A, May 3, 2020
We sure do need our “real deal” Good Shepherd right now. The good news is that Christ is right here with us. Our challenge is to follow God’s lead right back into a new kind of world order. (Photo: Art in the Christian Tradition)
RCL Reflection, Third Sunday of Easter, Year A, April 26, 2020. This week’s gospel lesson speaks volumes about both brokenness and sight. Because of our own present global situation, this lesson has much to teach us, along with some very good news. How often do we miss evidence of the Christ at work in our world right now? And when is it that we see most clearly?(Image: Mike Moyers, https://www.mikemoyersfineart.com/)
RCL Reflection, Second Sunday of Easter, Year A, April 19, 2020
The message of hope we have to bring is do not be discouraged, realize that even those who walked, talked, and studied with Jesus were temporarily “stuck” in an in-between time and place. We know they didn’t stay there, and neither will we.
RCL Reflection for Easter Sunday, Year A, April 12, 2020
This year’s Resurrection celebration is going to look a little different, but it doesn’t have to be any less meaningful. In fact, with Mark’s account we can also honor our own feelings of fear, confusion, and terror in these unsettling days. (Photo: Pedro-Ribeiro-Simões, Creative Commons)
Hands that grieve: A digital Good Friday, Year A, April 10, 2020
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