Be Ready: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Readings: Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Luke 12:32-40 Every once in a while I like to check into the Revised Common Lectionary …
Tag Archives: Torah
The Halakhah of the Good Samaritan
Readings: Luke 10:25-37 and Micah 6:8. This is one of many gospel narratives where people come to Jesus not to …
Christ at the Border, Christ in the Camps
Readings: Matthew 25:31-46, Oscar Romero on martyrs Oscar Romero’s appointment in 1977 as archbishop to the archdiocese of San Salvador …
Jesus Loves Deuteronomy (and You Should, Too)
Text: Luke 4:1-13 Sixty-six books. One thousand, one hundred eighty-nine chapters. Thirty-one thousand, one hundred and two verses. There’s so …
You Have Permission to Rest
One of my favorite stories about rest comes at the end of Mark 1: “In the morning, while it was …
Torah: Laws of Liberation
Readings: Leviticus 25:8-13, 23; excerpt from b. Shabbat 31a* I want to start by acknowledging that “Law” is a very …
One God, Many Interpretations: Learning from the Jewish Rabbinic Tradition
(Reflection given on June 19, 2016, at East Barnard Church. Texts were Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and Marge Piercy’s poem, “Kaddish.” At …
