Jan 27, 2022 | lectionary series, Lectionary Series, Sejana Yoo, Weekly Words
What if the Gospel included not just the fathers but the mothers’ names in the text? How powerful would it be for women to hear (or to read) the names of the women included in the lineage of Jesus? What a reminder it would be for everyone that both women and men were...
Jan 27, 2022 | Geneece Goertzen, Weekly Words
I am a dual-degree graduate student at Baylor University, an institution with R-1 research status. I will graduate this May with Master degrees in both Divinity and Social Work. I was recently ordained by my church, Calvary Baptist Church in Waco, TX. I have a passion...
Jan 20, 2022 | Carrie Veal, Lectionary Series, lectionary series, Weekly Words
I remember being a little girl, growing up in the South in the 1980s and realizing from a young age that the world treated boys better than girls. At that time, my evidence was clothes, sports and social norms. I never heard a boy reprimanded for being loud (though I...
Jan 13, 2022 | Leah Grundset Davis, lectionary series, Lectionary Series, Weekly Words
I couldn’t tell you when, or for what reason, but in the mid-2000s Fred Craddock came to my seminary to preach. He was a legend of course, and on that day he was preaching about Jesus’ baptism. Craddock preached that there was a line that day next to the Jordan River....
Jan 6, 2022 | Laura Ellis, Lectionary Series, Weekly Words
2 Timothy 1:5-10 (NRSV) “I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the...
