Tag: Acts 8:26-40
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Reflecting on Acts 8 29-40
We are studying Acts 8:29-40 this week; it’s the story of the baptism of “the Ethiopian eunuch” by Philip the Evangelist on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. Some notes on the text are here, and here. This story will be relatively familiar to many, so we might want – as we often do –…
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Studying Acts 8 29-40
We are studying Acts 8:29-40 this week, a text we often refer to as “the story of the Ethiopian eunuch.” We looked at this same text several years ago, those notes are still here, and I still like them. For that matter, I think I was a lot more attuned to the resonances with other…
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
[A sermon on Acts 8:26-40, the Uniform Series text for Sunday, August 13, 2017.] What in the world are we supposed to make of this story? This peculiar story about a meeting, as it turns out, an appointment, arranged by the Holy Spirit no less, so that from one side at least it looks for…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion (Acts 8 26-40)
Here are some questions over the Uniform Series text, Acts 8:26-40, that we could consider in class this Sunday: How, or what, does the setting of the story – a desert road going from Jerusalem to Gaza – contribute to the meaning of the story? What are some of the meanings “the desert” or “the…
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Exegetical Exercise (Acts 8 26-40)
The Uniform Series text for Sunday, August 13 is Acts 8:26-40. These are my notes on the text: This is an amazing text from a literary point of view; and there are a lot of ideas packed into this text-as-literature. Similar and Related Texts: The gospel accounts of the work of John and Baptist and…
Matters of Interpretation 