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Textweek ATLAS : October 11, 2015 - Proper 23B Ordinary 28B /Pentecost 20

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: 

Proper 23 / Ordinary 28 / Pentecost 20
October 11, 2015

 Balentine, Samuel E., "Between Text & Sermon, Job 23:1-9,16-17," Interpretation, 1999.

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 “Job’s speech in chapters 23-24 holds in tension two
seemingly dissonant affirmations: God is absent, and there must be justice.”

Newsom, Carol A., "Job and His Friends, A Conflict of Moral
Imaginations," Interpretation, 1999.

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 “Two profound yet incompatible moral imaginations confront
each other in the attempt to address Job's experience of turmoil That of the
friends is grounded in a deep sense of the moral nature of creation. Job's
moral imagination takes shape through an act of witness that attempts to create
a community of answerability before God.”

 O'Connor, Kathleen M., "Repentance in First-Person Plural,"
Journal for Preachers, 2008.

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 “Repentance of the individual is only one nourishing stream,
a kind of tributary in a deep, wide river of the biblical tradition. What would
repentance look like if Christians in the United States began to think of
ourselves as called to compassionate engagement with all of God's people?”

 Wadell, Paul J., "Living by the Word: Mark 10:17-31, Hebrews 4:12-16," The Christian Century, 2009.

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 “The young man in Mark’s story may go away grieving, but not
empty-handed.”

 

Textweek ATLAS - October 4, 2015 Proper 21, Ordinary 26, Pentecost+19

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: 

Proper 22 / Ordinary 27 / Pentecost 19
October 4, 2015

Murphy, George L., "Providence and Passion in Esther," Currents
in Theology and Mission, 2002.

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 “The idea that God and God’s activity in the world is hidden is likely to make people
uncomfortable.” 

Gipe, William, "Between Text & Sermon, Numbers 11:24-30," Interpretation, 2002.

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“From this passage [Numbers 11], as well as the Pentecost story, it is clear that God
works in ways that we sometimes do not understand—and surely cannot control.
God often works outside human expectations, plans, and structures.”

 

Bartholomew, Christine R, "Living by the Word: Mark 9:38-50,
James 5:13-20," The Christian Century, 2009.

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 “God constantly refines us with fire, be it conflict, persecution or sacrifice.”

 Jones, L. Gregory, "Crafting Communities of Forgiveness," Interpretation, 2000.

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 “Forgiveness is much more than isolated acts and words of individuals. The capacity to
discover what it means to forgive and be forgiven depends, in part, on the
richness of one's communal practices and disciplines.”

Textweek ATLAS September 27, 2015 Proper 21 Ordinary 26 Pentecost 18

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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Proper 21B / Ordinary 26B / Pentecost 18
September 21, 2015

 Mitchell, Glenn, "Living by the Word: Mark 9:30-37," The Christian Century, 2009.

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 “Scooping up a child requires letting go of whatever we’re holding.”

 Lundblad, Barbara K., "A Few More Hopeful Fanatics," The Christian Century, 1991.

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 “Who is being put in our midst today? Our graphs, surveys and workshops do not give the complete picture. Perhaps congregational and denominational strength will enable us to welcome and cherish those who will never help us be self-sustaining in the usual sense, but our longing for strength, success and solvency may also tempt us to turn our eyes away from the little ones, the disruptive, those who have no status. We have few rubrics for dealing with those who seem strange.”

 Koyama, Kosuke, "A Holy Mystery: Welcoming a Little Child," The Living Pulpit, 2003.
 
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 “When we welcome a little child, we are engaged in thanksgiving for all the gifts that make life precious. The welcoming of the child is the holy act that will bring "wholesomeness" (shalom) to humanity upon this earth. It is the ecumenical holy mystery to which the whole of humanity is invited.”

 O'Connor, Kathleen M., "Lamenting Back to Life," Interpretation, 2008.

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 “The confessions of Jeremiah are prayers for people mired in loss and play a major role in the theological and spiritual process of healing. They keep communication with God alive in the midst of destruction and despair.”

 Culpepper, R. Alan, "The Power of Words and the Tests of Two Wisdoms," Review and Expositor, 1986.

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 “Verse 16 pushes the argument one step further: if counterfeit wisdom is exposed by jealousy and selfish ambition, these in turn give rise to disorder and every kind of evil. Integrity, humility, and truthfulness are essential to harmony in the Christian community. Where these are destroyed by jealousy and ambition, the church will suffer the consequences in dissension and disunity.”