Textweek ATLAS - February 21, 2016 - Lent 2C

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Lent 2C
February 21, 2016

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."