2020 Summer Lectionary: Hearing Stories Again for the First Time
Reflection
The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish teacher and thinker appears as a technique of survival for the oppressed. That it became, through the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. … Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy, and hatred, the three hounds of hell that track the trail of the disinherited, need have no dominion over them.
Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited, p 29
What are we hearing in new ways?
| July 26 Genesis 29:15-28 Psalm 128 Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 |
August 23 Exodus 1:8-2:10 Psalm 124 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 |
| August 2 Genesis 32:22-31 Psalm 17:1-7, 15 Romans 9:1‑5 Matthew 14:13-21 |
August 30 Exodus 3:1-15 Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 |
| August 2 Genesis 32:22-31 Psalm 17:1-7, 15 Romans 9:1‑5 Matthew 14:13-21 |
September 6 Exodus 12:1-14 Psalm 149 Romans 13:8-14 Matthew 18:15-20 |
| August 16 Genesis 45:1-15 Psalm 133 Romans 11:1‑2a, 29-32 Matthew 15:10-28 |
September 13 RECOMMITMENT Exodus 14:19-31 Psalm 114 Romans 14:1-12 Matthew 18:21-35 |
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