Tag: liberation
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Reflecting on Mark 5 1-13, 18-20
What ARE the main themes for us in the story told in Mark 5:1-20? …
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A Criterion for Liberation?
Alexander J. McKelway. The Freedom of God and Human Liberation. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] This book sat on the “Read Me” Shelf for a long, long time. It’s a short book. But it’s one of those books that I started more than once, got part way through,…
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21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
The lectionary’s gospel text for the 21 Sunday after Pentecost is Luke 13:10-17, a story of Jesus healing a woman with what we modern people would probably recognize as severe arthritis, although perhaps her condition was something different. She is sometimes called “the bent woman,” because of the way her condition forces her to stand…
Matters of Interpretation 