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...
Dec 23, 2021 | +Meredith Stone, Lectionary Series, Weekly Words
Psalm 68:4-11 (NIV) 4 Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him—his name is the Lord. 5 A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy...
Dec 16, 2021 | Lauren Brewer Bass, Lectionary Series, Weekly Words
1 Samuel 2:1-10 Matthew 1:18-25 In this week’s Gospel passage, Joseph is pondering what to do about his soon-to-be-wife’s pregnant predicament. Matthew tells us that Joseph was “faithful to the law” (NIV) or “just” (ESV), and also that he was kind—he was trying to...
Dec 10, 2021 | +Lynn Brinkley, Lectionary Series, Weekly Words
Luke 1:46-56 What happens when girlfriends pause for a “Praise Break?” I remember when one of my “besties” got accepted into medical school-praise break! I remember when my best friend, Dionne, recently celebrated 20 years as CEO of her Black-owned company-praise...
