Tag: hospitality
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Hospitality and Hostility and Wondering About That
Most of us – people, I’m thinking, human beings – are not good at welcoming and condemning at the same time. That sounds obvious, but it was a hard sentence to come up with. Most of us – people, I’m thinking, human beings – don’t think of ourselves as “condemning.” We more often think of…
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Reflecting on Acts 16 11-15, 40
We are studying Acts 16:11-15 and 40 (skipping the story in between!) for Sunday, February 28. This rounds out our five-week study of women in the New Testament with the story of Lydia, the “dealer in purple cloth” who is so responsive to Paul’s preaching of the gospel that she lodges Paul and his missionary…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Luke 7 37-48
We are studying Luke 7:37-48 for Sunday, October 27. This is Luke’s version of the story of the anointing woman. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are a few questions we might want to consider as we explore this text: In v37, Luke identifies the woman as “a sinner.” Otherwise, all we know…
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Transfiguration
Everyone seemed tired today – but happy. The tiredness, and the happiness, would have been related to yesterday’s Cajun Dinner. The Cajun Dinner is an annual event: the Saturday night before Ash Wednesday, or, alternatively, the Saturday night before Mardi Gras. It takes place in the all-purpose room of the church, which one of the…
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22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Over the centuries, people have come to realize that the book of Hebrews is one of the more mysterious books in the Bible. We don’t know who wrote it. Many have thought it was Paul, but today we’re taught in seminary to echo the church Father Origin in saying “God alone knows who wrote it.”
Matters of Interpretation 