Month: April 2020
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Making Tradition
What happened with palms this year opened up a little window on how “tradition” works. “It’s traditional” for Christians to celebrate Palm Sunday with actual, physical palms. Palm Sunday is the sixth Sunday of Lent, the first day of Holy Week, and the day we celebrate Jesus’s “triumphal entry” into the city of Jerusalem on…
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Hold Fast to What is [Truly] Good
![Hold Fast to What is [Truly] Good](https://hermeneutrix.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/crop-trinity-college-dublin-reading-room.jpg?w=1016)
Shared with my by a friend: this careful reminder not to be beguiled, but to be steadfast in the face of temptation, and not to conclude that suffering must be good, somehow. Good to have in mind as we head down the road of Holy Week.
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For Such a Time as This
If I hadn’t wasted all that time blogging over the years, I wouldn’t have been able to spend the last few days of pandemic purdah making this nifty web page for our tiny congregation. So you just never know. In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle;…
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Reflecting on Isaiah 42 1-9
We are studying Isaiah 42:1-9 for Sunday, April 5 – Palm / Passion Sunday, or Palm Sunday of Christ’s Passion. This is the first part of the first of the “Servant Songs” in Second Isaiah. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are a few questions we could think about or discuss or both:…
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Studying Isaiah 42 1-9
We are studying Isaiah 42:1-9 for April 5 – Palm / Passion Sunday, or Palm Sunday of Christ’s Passion. This is the first part of the first of the “Servant Songs” in Second Isaiah. [Some questions on the text are here.] Here are my notes on that text: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: The book of Isaiah…
Matters of Interpretation 