Sunday, August 6, 2023

Readings:

Sunday, July 30, 2023

Scripture Readings:

Genesis 29:15-29

Romans 8:26-39

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Readings: 

Genesis 28:10-19a

Romans 8:12-25

Matthew 13:24-30,36-43

This week, we hear of God’s presence in the places of weakness and vulnerability. We discuss the difference between “fixing” and “healing,” and the significance of patience in the story of God and his people.

Walter Brueggemann, Genesis, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1982).

Jerome, Homilies on the Psalms.

John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis, 54.17.

Augustine, Glaphyra on Genesis, 3-4.

Bede, Homilies on the Gospels, 1.17.

Tom Wright, Matthew for Everyone: Part One, Chapters 1-15 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).

Robert Farrar Capon, Kingdom, Grace, Judgement: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Today we are honored to hear from Bishop Ed Gungor.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

This week, we look at the burdens each of us carry, specifically those of which we need to let go.

Resources:

Walter Brueggemann, Genesis, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1982).

John Goldingay, Genesis, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2020).

Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007).

Augustine, Sermon 69.2

Sunday, July 2, 2023

This week we hear one of the most challenging stories in all of scripture: God’s command for Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. What is up with this story? And what could it possibly tell us about the nature of God? 

Resources:

A great book which explores the Old Testament reading is The Art of Reading Scripture, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003). 

See specifically the following essays: 

R.W.L. Moberly, “Living Dangerously: Genesis 22 and the Quest for Good Biblical Interpretation."

Gary A. Anderson, “Joseph and the Passion of our Lord.”

Ellen F. Davis, “Vulnerability, the Condition of the Covenant.”:

See also: Davis, “Radical Trust,” Duke Chapel Archives, June 26, 2011, https://chapel-archives.oit.duke.edu/documents/EllenDavis--Gen22.pdf.

Chris E.W. Green, "The Sacrifice of God,” Speakeasy Theology, June 28, 2023.

Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007).

Christine D. Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999). 

Benedict, The Rule of Benedict, ed. Timothy Fry, OSB, (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1981). 

Jerome, On Matthew 1.10.40-42.

Sunday, June 25, 2023

This week, we look at two challenging passages: Abraham’s releasing of Ishmael, and Jesus’ imperative “Do not be afraid.” Each speak to us about the things which are central in our lives and how we hold our identities, our stuff, and our families.

Resources:

Walter Brueggemann, Genesis, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1982).

Paul Sabatier, The Road to Assisi: The Essential Biography of St. Francis, (Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2014).

Sunday, June 18, 2023

Today, we hear the story of Abraham and the three visitors, and the radical generosity of the kingdom of God.

Walter Brueggemann, Genesis, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1982).

Ralph C. Wood, “God Repentance-Enabling Forgiveness,” The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor, (Waco: Baylor, 2001).

Stanley Hauerwas, Matthew, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007).

Herbert Butterfield, International Conflict in the Twentieth Century, (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960).

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Today, we hear stories of faith: of following God, of listening, of journeying.

Walter Brueggemann, Genesis, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1982).

Eugene Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God, (New York: Crown, 2019).

Antony the Great, “Letter 1.” 

Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel (Sisters, Ore.: Mulnomah Books, 1990).

Sunday, June 6, 2023

Trinity Sunday