April 14 | Mutual Aid and the Struggle for Life
Mutual Aid and the Struggle for Life
Text: Acts 6
Speaker: Joel Miller
Locusts, beetles, land crabs, termites, ants, and bees. This could be the beginning of a list of things you hope not to find in your house during a round of spring-cleaning. These are also some of the creatures that show up in the first chapter of an old book by the Russian Peter Kropotkin called Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolut...
March 31 | Easter Encounter: Resurrection Mystery
Easter Encounter | Resurrection Mystery By Joel Miller
Mark 16:1-8, ( ), (9-20) – three readings
In the oldest complete manuscripts we have, Mark’s Gospel ends at chapter 16, verse 8, with the women fleeing the tomb.
The vast majority of later manuscripts contain a longer ending of Mark, which appears in our Bibles, often with footnotes giving this information I’m saying now.
As some point, a shorter supplemental ending was also written. Some ancient manuscripts contain the original ending, plus the shorter ending, plus the longer ending, which is how they appear in our Bibles. We will hear these read now.
Read: Mark 16:1-8, ( ), (9-20)
When I say Christ is risen! you say Christ is risen Indeed!
Christ is risen.
Christ is risen.
There’s a joke I heard a while back about the difference betwee...
April 7 | In Defense of Wonder
In Defense of Wonder
Text: Acts 1:1-14
Speaker: Mark Rupp
This is quite a week to have the assigned lectionary reading include admonition from on high to not stand around staring at the sky. Maybe your street was like mine on Tuesday evening when the sun finally fell below the line of clouds that had been threatening central Ohio all day to create one of the most vivid rainbows I have ever seen. From wher...
March 17 | Fifth Encounter: Good News Amidst Apocalypse
Fifth Encounter: Good News Amidst Apocalypse
Text: Mark 13:1-8, 14-23, 28-37
Speaker: Joel Miller
Well, welcome to Apocalypse Sunday.
This passage in Mark is sometimes called the Little Apocalypse. That’s in relation to the big one, Revelation, the final book of our New Testament. This apocalyptic sermon of Jesus in Mark 13, and its parallels in Matthew and Luke, is merely one chapter.
So, I guess welcome to L...
March 24 | Sixth Encounter: Acompañarse on the Journey
Sixth Encounter: Acompañarse on the Journey
Text: Mark 11:1-11; 14:3-9
Speaker: Bethany Davey
One year ago, I traveled with a group of fellow seminarians to Chiapas, Mexico. Throughout our weeks in Mexico’s southernmost state, we met with leaders of local, grassroots organizations and coalitions who understand their role and the role of their group as one of accompaniment. We heard this Spanish word over and...
