Bible Challenge calls us to read all of scripture in 2013
January 17, 2013
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I taught an adult Sunday School class last week for newcomers at our church, and struggled a little to hide my shock when a couple
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Reading the New Testament chronologically
January 4, 2013
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Marcus Borg talks about reading the New Testament chronologically and what this approach teaches us about the early Church and about being a Christian.
Karen King: serious Bible study began in the Episcopal Church
November 11, 2012
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Even as a teenager, King craved an intellectual component to her religious life. She went to the Episcopal church in town for its adult Bible study class. She was the only youth, and she liked how serious it was.
For All the Saints
November 5, 2012
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The church kitchen was busy, bright and warm, with three cheerful ladies putting together platters of crustless sandwich quarters — the inimitable, the unutterably delicious
Remember me
October 22, 2012
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Psalm 25: 6 “Remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions; remember me according to your love and for the sake of your
So, have you sold what you own yet?
October 14, 2012
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“You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” Are we supposed to take this passage literally? If we aren’t supposed to take it literally, how exactly are we supposed to take it?
Preaching on some tough readings
October 7, 2012
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Several preachers who share their thinking and sermons online mentioned that this week’s readings made challenging sermon fodder. Here are some insights on how three preachers either prepared, or preached.
Innies and Outties
September 28, 2012
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Mark 9.38-50 Each of us has one (or the other). We share having it and it connects us, past, present and future with the whole
The role of women in the early church: what do we know?
September 24, 2012
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Newly discovered papyrus fragment is not historical evidence of Jesus’ marital status—but it reminds us that the status of women in the church has been subject to a lot of flim-flammery. That’s right: film-flammery.
On the “Jesus’ wife” fragment
September 19, 2012
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by Deirdre Good Reposted with edits: Academic conferences are not usually electrifying. But on Tuesday September 18th at 7pm, at the “Gnosticism and Manichaeism,” announced
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