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Mark The People's Commentary - Food in the wilderness
Mark The People's Commentary - Food in the wilderness
by BRF - Dick France
An Abortive “Retreat” This is the only time in Mark’s Gospel that the Twelve are called ‘apostles’. The word means ‘those sent out’, and it describes well the experience they have just shared as Jesus’ emissaries. But having been ‘sent out’, they now return and report back to the…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book IV
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Book IV
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Book IV (Psalm 90-106) Book IV opens with “A Prayer of Moses, the Man of God.” It is the only psalm in the Hebrew Psalter ascribed to Moses. Its words are a plea to God for mercy: “Turn [shub], O YHWH! How long? Change your mind [nakham] concerning your servants” (90:13, my trans…
The Power of the Parable - Rhetorical Violence
The Power of the Parable - Rhetorical Violence
by SPCK - John Dominic Crossan
chapter 8 Rhetorical Violence The Parable Gospel According To Matthew In 1959, I was sent, as you will recall from the Prologue, to the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome for two years of postdoctoral specialization. The Biblicum— as it is known for short— is located just off …
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Moses' Final Words and His Death
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Moses' Final Words and His Death
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Moses’ Final Words and His Death (Deuteronomy 32: 1- 34: 12) As noted in the introduction to this essay, the Deuteronomic redactors shaped the whole of their book as the last will and testament of Moses. After the discussion of law and covenant, redactors have appended materials …
Imagining the Lectionary: God's grace is always more than enough (Proper 20A/Ordinary 25A)
Imagining the Lectionary: God's grace is always more than enough (Proper 20A/Ordinary 25A)
by David Perry
Imagining the Lectionary: God's grace is always more than enough (Proper 20A/Ordinary 25A) Reflection accompanying images “You shall see the glory of the Lord”, “Gods grace is always more than enough” and “No strings attached” The people are grumbling, complaining and turning inw…
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year C
Meditation - Trinity Sunday Year C
by David Middleton
Meditation – Trinity Sunday Time Year C Tomorrow John 16: 12-15 Why? Why go to such lengths to fill us in, Father God? As I look back over the history of your relationship with us I am staggered at the lengths you’ve done to keep us informed. You are God, accountable to no one, f…
Meditation - Sunday before Lent Year A
Meditation - Sunday before Lent Year A
by David Middleton
Meditation – Sunday before Lent Year A The World of Jesus Matthew 17: 1-9 Jesus said ‘Don’t tell anyone till after my resurrection’: We didn’t know what he meant at the time, but it all came flooding back when Mary just burst into the room and said, ‘Jesus is alive! He’s risen fr…
Fed Up
Fed Up
by Marjorie Dobson
3rd Sunday in Lent & Fifteenth after Pentecost Proper 21 Ordinary 26 year A Exodus 17:1-7 Poem: Fed up! We are roaming this boring old desert. The exodus people, that’s us! We were happy enough when we started, but now folk are making a fuss. The bane of our life is the catering…
Hebrews for Everyone - A New Order of Priesthood
Hebrews for Everyone - A New Order of Priesthood
by SPCK - N T Wright
A New Order of Priesthood Hebrews 7.11-19 ‘I want it all to be perfect! There must be nothing wrong! Everything’s got to be just right!’ The bride-to-be was getting more and more excited as the great day approached. Though many people in Western society scoff at the institution o…
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Aid for Jerusalem
Paul for Everyone Romans part 2 - Aid for Jerusalem
by SPCK - N T Wright
Aid for Jerusalem ROMANS 15.25-33 I have now translated most of the New Testament for this present series, and I’ve discovered one or two interesting things as I’ve done so. The hardest Greek I have so far faced, without a doubt, is in one particular section of 2 Corinthians, nam…
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Just One River to Cross
Joshua, Judges and Ruth for Everyone - Just One River to Cross
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Just One River to Cross JOSHUA 1: 1-18 As I write, I listen to CDs, or rather I half-listen. I do not pay too much attention to the words, though sometimes they catch me out. One day the title phrase of Jimmy Cliff ’s “Many Rivers to Cross” caught my attention, and I listened mor…
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Dying outside the Promised Land
Numbers and Deuteronomy for Everyone - On Dying outside the Promised Land
by SPCK - John Goldingay
On Dying outside the Promised Land Deuteronomy 32: 48- 34: 12 I just read the obituary of a fine trumpet player and singer and even lovelier flugelhorn player, Stacy Rowles, who died after a car accident. My personal memory is of the way she once came to give a CD to my wife, Ann…
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B
LWPT Meditations - Third Sunday of Easter - Year B
by Susan Thorne
Meditation - 3rd Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 3 v 12-19 1st John 3 v 1-7 Luke 24 v 36b-48 Three decades ago, the then Bishop of Durham, David Jenkins, caused near uproar among Christians with his statement that the resurrection of Jesus was just “a conjuring trick with bones”. I …
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
LWPT Meditations - Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
by Susan Thorne
Meditation – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 1st Timothy 6:6-19 Luke 16:19-31 Opinion is divided regarding the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Is it an account of heaven and hell? Or is it a lesson about wealth and poverty? Its context within Luke’s gospe…
LWPT Meditations - Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B