Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue

Pentecost – Year B Ezekiel 37:1-14 One of my favorite images from Nikos Kazantzakis is portraying Holy Spirit as an eagle, not a dove, that ...

Pentecost – Year B Romans 8:22-27 Pentecost often comes down to wearing red clothes and having red balloons. Brother Paul sees Pentecost typ...

Pentecost – Year B Psalm 104:24-34, 35b Everywhere you look there is a glimpse of the Presence of G*D. That possibility or reality seems to ...

Pentecost – Year B Acts 2:1-21 Given the scope of time, ten days from Ascension to Pentecost is pretty good for a slow-mill G*D. One key is ...

Pentecost – Year B John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Going away is so unhandy to our plans based on our current reality. Whether it is Jesus, friend, ...

Easter 7 – Year B assured we are safe we proceed into dangerous turf theirs claimed uniquely theirs our assurance of safety all the more dan...

Ascension – Year B Luke 24:44-53; Acts 1:1-11 On this day of remembering ascension we do well to pay attention to footnotes. * Other ancient...

Easter 7 – Year B 1 John 5:9-13 Let's see, I am supposed to believe the human testimony of the writer of 1 John, but even more I am to b...

Easter 7 – Year B Psalm 1 Happy delight: an excellent starting place. Yielding fruit in your time: the time for this is always now. These tw...

Easter 7 – Year B Acts 1:15-17, 26 Yes, leadership development through a prayer process is still possible. We can learn something from every...

Easter 7 – Year B John 17:6-19 To what and whom are you to reveal what you know of G*D? By whom and what has G*D been revealed to you? Both ...

Easter 6 – Year B beyond logic as . . . so . . . : therefore . . . makes it sound so definitive here are the facts as I have been loved grea...

Easter 6 – Year B 1 John 5:1-9 We are still dealing with a lot of conquering language in service to matters of love and faith. One really ne...

Easter 6 – Year B Psalm 98 The word "victory" shows up three times in the NRSV in the first three verses. In our current ears this...

Easter 6 – Year B Acts 10:44-48 Wouldn't you know it! Just when we thought we had an unrepeatable experience that would set us apart for...

Easter 6 – Year B John 15:9-17 Institutionally, United Methodists are called to "make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation ...

Easter 5 – Year B swing slow . . . resurrection comes dropping slow honey molasses slow slow enough when awareness dawns it seems as if it h...

Easter 5 – Year B 1 John 4:7-21 Want G*D to be recognizable within your life? "Love" another, each other, one another, others. G*D...

Easter 5 – Year B Psalm 22:25-31 What is missing from this section of the Psalm is the context in which it began – forsakenness, worminess, ...

Easter 5 – Year B Acts 8:26-40 Inquiring minds want to know what horsepower chariot Philip had to contend with. Had the chariot pulled into ...