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Textweek ATLAS links, March 3, 2013, Lent 3C

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Lent 3C

March 3, 2013

Hedrick, Charles W. "Prolegomena to Reading Parables: Luke 13:6-9 As A Test Case," Review & Expositor, 1997.
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Includes a number of historic and contemporary understandings of the Fig Tree Parable. "...to what extent is the realism of the stories merely a cosmetic feature of the stories' inventions, or to what extent should the realism of the stories be taken seriously as essential to the way they are read?"

Long, Thomas G., "Breaking and Entering," The Christian Century, 2001.
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"What is the sign of God's pregnant time? We must watch closely and faithfully, or we will miss it. To sharpen our vision, Jesus tells a parable about an orchard owner who was frustrated by a barren fig tree and ordered the gardener to cut the tree down..."

Rittenhouse, Bruce P., "What Does It Mean to Tell the Truth about the Virginia Tech Killings?" Currents in Theology and Mission, 2007.
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"The truth for us, then, is not a simple tale of innocent victims and an innocent society faced with inhuman evil..."

Baird, William, "1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1990.
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"Faithful people can withstand temptation because of the faithfulness of God. Positively, the whole text implies the following lesson: God's grace is manifest in the gifts of Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Obedience is gratitude in response to that grace."

Marty, Martin E., "Full Communion," The Christian Century, 2001.
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"Now that the 'ecumenical century' has ended, Christians must ask 'How are the people of "one baptism" and "one bread" doing?'"

Sanders, James A., "Expository Article: Isaiah 55:1-9," Interpretation, 1978.
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"At this moment of theophany in a foreign land, Yahweh not only calls his dispossessed people to a new covenant, but he also bids those who have been unfaithful during the fifty years of Exile to return to the fold."

Textweek ATLAS links, February 24, 2013, Lent 2C

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

http://www.textweek.com/yearc/lentc2.htm

Lent 2C

February 24, 2013

Taylor, Barbara Brown, "As a Hen Gathers Her Brood," The Christian Century, 1995.

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"Jesus won't be king of the jungle in this or any other story. What he will be is a mother hen, who stands between the chicks and those who mean to do them harm. She has no fangs, no claws, no rippling muscles. All she has is her willingness to shield her babies with her own body. If the fox wants them, he will have to kill her first."

Simmons, Elizabeth McGregor, "The Sense of Text: An Invitation to Lenten Preaching," Journal for Preachers, 2004.
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"What is God's vision for the way life is supposed to be? It's supposed to be like being sheltered from the desert sun in the safe protection of God's tend. It's supposed to be like being gathered under the wings of a mother hen. It's supposed to be a church turned toward that vision and living every day as the sheltering body of Christ to make it so."

Perkinson, Jim, "Theology and the City: Learning to Cry, Struggling to See,"Cross Currents, 2001.
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"To live in a suburb 'neutrally' is to participate in the American fiction of innocence."

Hays, Richard B., "Where Is Our Citizenship?" The Christian Century, 1992.
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"These scripture texts offer us two more sojourners: Abraham, who left country and kindred for the sake of God's promise, and Jesus who sneers at Herod, 'that fox,' and pursues his collision course with the authorities in the sacred city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to it. Even in his lament over the murderous city, however, Jesus holds out hope; he has longed to gather the children of that city 'as a hen gathers her brood under her wings,' and the option remains open that someday the city will say, 'Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Grieb, A. Katherine, "'The One Who Called You...' Vocation and Leadership in the Pauline Literature," Interpretation, 2005.
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"God's saving work in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the disruptive grace that called Paul, his co-workers, and their churches to an unexpected new freedom and service. They must all learn how to walk the way of the cross and live in the newness of resurrection. The church's grave danger is that, expecting too little from God, it will settle for less than the gospel."

Textweek ATLAS links February 17, 2013, Lent 1C

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Lent 1C
February 17, 2013

Achtemeier, Paul J., "Enigmatic Bible Passages: It's the Little Things that Count," Biblical Archaeologist, 1983.
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"What is at issue is not whether Jesus is really God's son; even the devil is willing to concede that. The temptation has to do with how God's son should act..."

Eisenbise, Debra L., "The Desert: Wilderness of Transformation," Brethren Life and Thought, 2005. Sermon.
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"[Lent] is an annual opportunity for us to take stock of those 'yet-to-be-converted parts of ourselves' and to ask one way or another what it means to be who God is calling us to be. Lent moves us to leave aside the cinders (they will wait) and to voluntarily enter into the desert, following Jesus and open to being transformed again by God."

Taylor, Barbara Brown, "Settling for Less," The Christian Century, 1998.
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"Worship the Lord your God and serve no one else. Expect great things, from God and from yourself. Believe that everything is possible. Why should any of us settle for less?"

Christensen, Richard L., "Deuteronomy 26:1-11, Between Text and Sermon,"Interpretation, 1995.
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"The abundant life and freedom God has given can be lost, and this is what Deuteronomy seeks to guard against..."

Neumark, Heidi, "Aliens Welcome," The Christian Century, 2007.
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"And so we come to another alien in the desert. There at the edge, and potentially the tempting end of the wilderness experience, Jesus is given a chance to opt out...To isolate himself from wandering Arameans and parishes desperately in need of all sorts of unaffordable repairs..."

Textweek ATLAS links February 10, 2013 Last Epiphany Transfiguration

Studying lectionary texts? Here are some starting places for study at ATLA this week. If you are the graduate of an accredited U.S. theological school, you may have free access to these articles through your school. Check ATLAS access options. You can find full lists of ATLAS recommended articles for this week at The Text This Week's page for this week's texts:

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Last Epiphany/Transfiguration C
February 19, 2013

Martin, Thomas W., "What Makes Glory Glorious? Reading Luke's Account of the Transfiguration over against Triumphalism," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2006.

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"Luke's version sees messianic glory not as exaltation, but as humiliation. This is shown by reading the Transfiguration as the culmination of three themes: Jesus' identity, 'hearing' Jesus and the 'glory' to be fulfilled in Jesus..."

Neumark, Heidi, "Altitude Adjustment," The Christian Century, 2007.
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"When cures and healing are beyond our powers, when the shine on a loved one's face comes from tears in the fluorescent lights of intensive care, when the third day seems far off - on such days it is good to be in this story, listening to the voice that urges us to follow on, for the Word shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

Stacy, R. Wayne, "Glimpses of Glory: Luke 9:28-36," Review and Expositor, 2002.
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"In light of the situation and context of Luke's church (persecution, delay of the parousia, fall of Jerusalem), Luke attempts to alter the expectations of his church by redefining their experience."

Willimon, William H., "Come on Down," The Christian Century, 2004.
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"How, in God's name, do we keep at it?

Taylor, Barbara Brown, "Surprised by Joy," The Living Pulpit, 1996. (see Joyissue focus of The Living Pulpit 5.4, 1996.)
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"The only condition for joy is the presence of God."