Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue

Pentecost +18 - Year B Psalm 26 An interesting shift in tense occurs from the beginning of the Psalm to its end. We begin with a claim upon ...

Pentecost +18 - Year B Job 1:1; 2:1-10 What land are you from? Job was from the land of Uz, which was a traditional source of wisdom. Wouldn...

Pentecost +18 - Year B Mark 10:2-16 “Hardness of heart” is a disconnect with creation. It is this disconnect that is behind the surface of d...

Pentecost +17 – Year B of stumbling blocks most amateur strewers of stumbling blocks are unaware of their sowing it is just the way life is ...

Pentecost +17 – Year B James 5:13-20 Let’s follow some parallels. Sufferers pray. Elders pray. Elders are sufferers – thus the reality of wo...

Pentecost +17 - Year B Psalm 124 The issue is “help”. What help and whose help is effective in which circumstances? Can we help ourselves? H...

Pentecost +17 - Year B Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22 There is here an expansion of a joy to include others (the poor). It is an expansion of a...

Pentecost +17 - Year B Mark 9:38-50 Bigotry arising from self-absorption is deeply troubling because it substitutes a partiality that denies...

Pentecost +16 - Year B Embraced Who is this child placed in the middle of angry children arguing about who is king of the hill? Could be any...

Pentecost +16 - Year B James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a Wisdom literature tends to have simplistic and dualistic rules. James’ community is persecuted a...

Pentecost +16 - Year B Psalm 1 This beatitude of a psalm looks at the choices in life’s journey and reflects that a choice that leads to gre...

Pentecost +16 - Year B Proverbs 31:10-31 It takes 30 chapters of lecture snippets to aid a man to come to their essential conscience. It tak...

Pentecost +16 - Year B Mark 9:30-37 I appreciate the advice that it is important to remember the horror of capital punishment, whether as sl...

Pentecost +15 - Year B Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Poor boy, you're boun...

Pentecost +15 - Year B James 3:1-12 Check your eyesight, it may just cleanup your mouth. To see G*D or a likeness of G*D sets loose a blessi...

Pentecost +15 - Year B Psalm 19 A tent as a pit stop for the sun, as a staging area for a beloved, portrays safety, nurture, comfort, streng...

Pentecost +15 - Year B Who knows the journey Lady Wisdom has taken to bring her message. She and Jonah may want to compare notes. Both end u...

Pentecost +15 - Year B Mark 8:27-38 When we find stories like this it is sometimes helpful to retell it from end to start and see what new e...

Pentecost +14 - Year B Health Care Reform - Now A couple of weeks ago I wrote a letter to the editor regarding Health Care Reform. Subsequen...

Pentecost +14 - Year B James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17 Ahh, the old joke (or not) about a boss who gets an invisible finger from a demigod of t...