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 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 2, 2022 | lectionary series, Tara Gibbs, Weekly Words
Psalm 9:1-2,7-11,13-14 (Gafney’s translation) 1I will give thanks to the God Who Saves with my whole heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. 2I will rejoice and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, Most High. 7God Who Is Majesty sits enthroned...
