Skipping stories
We’ve just started the Narrative Lectionary and it’s pretty clear up front, despite the nine month span, that’s it’s just a skim through the Bible. This coming Sunday Isaac will be promised to Sarah and Abraham, after which we’ll see Isaac’s son Jacob wrestling with an angel, drop in on…
Narrative Lectionary Lectio Divina
Last Sunday I announced that I would be leading a new group that will meet before worship to spend some time with the scriptures we will be using from the Narrative Lectionary during worship this coming year. I shared that my plan was to use lectio divina to guide our…
Self-knowledge
The writer David Whyte says “Self-knowledge includes the understanding that the self we want to know is about to disappear.” – from his book Consolations, p. 200 This was part of a short essay the new CMC Transitions and Ritual group reflected on last evening as we met for the…
Make us a channel…
Today is the first day of school for Columbus City Schools. Some other local districts are already in their second week. Today also happens to be my dad’s birthday. Which has me thinking about how knowledge, culture, wisdom, responsibility, and love are passed from one generation to another. Schooling is…
The whole Bible in (less than) half an hour, OR in nine months x4
Like other Christians around the world, we regularly follow the Revised Common Lectionary, a set of scriptural readings throughout the liturgical year. This provides many benefits, but a disadvantage is that it tends to jump around the biblical story. It makes it difficult to get a sense of how parts…
