Proper 21 Year B
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year B
author: N T Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
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Proper 21
Esther 7.1-6, 9-10
James 5.13-20
Mark 9.38-50
The ancient world was full of stories in which the threatened hero or heroine is rescued at last, and the people who had almost overcome them are condemned instead. David kills Goliath. Homer’s heroes – some of them, anyway – defeat their rivals after tense battles. The Son of Man is exalted, the Beast destroyed. Plenty of plays and novels follow the same line. We tell the story of the twentieth century in similar terms: think of Hitler, or Mussolini...
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year B by N T Wright
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