Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue

Advent 2 - Year C Luke 3:1-6 As we move toward the Feast day of Saint Nicholas on December 6, it is helpful to return to John who heard his ...

Advent 1 - Year C be careful what you wish for a cloud full of power sounds good now great greasy gopher glory has its appeal oh the shaking...

Advent 1 - Year C 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 A thanksgiving pericope on Thanksgiving Day. The focus here, though, is not storing up enough turke...

Advent 1 - Year C Psalm 25:1-10 This is almost an acrostic psalm. Problem is, two letters are missing and two doubled. Likely this reflects ...

Advent 1 - Year C Jeremiah 33:14-16 What does it mean to live in the midst of a promise being fulfilled? It is to find righteousness by cont...

Advent 1 - Year C Luke 21:25-36 Life is uncertain in its details. [Note G*D, not the Devil, loves the details, all the fiddly bits.] A basic...

Pentecost Last - Year B my presence is not only from this world but is very much in and for and with this world no need to fight over this I...

Pentecost Last - Year B Revelation 1:4b-8 Sometimes we find ourselves saying more than we know. In a conflictual setting we sometimes only k...

Pentecost Last - Year B Psalm 132:1-12 G*D needs a rest. Too much wandering around outside of Eden and coming up with new responses to these...

Pentecost Last - Year B 2 Samuel 23:1-7 In looking back, David cuts through the good and absence of good to summarize a road better taken ev...

Pentecost Last - Year B John 18:33-37 We have moved during this Pentecost season from John 15:26, back in June, to John 18:37, this fourth w...

Pentecost +24 - Year B Idols come in all sizes. Some are Temple-sized. Some are family-sized. Some are assurance-of-salvation sized. Usually...

Pentecost +24 - Year B Hebrews 10:11-14, (15-18), 19-25 It is verse 18 that offers a better approach to sacrifice than a mega- or metasacrif...

Pentecost +24 - Year B Psalm 16 The opening phrase from verse 8, “I am ever mindful of the LORD’s presence” was frequently used for meditati...

Pentecost +24 - Year B 1 Samuel 1:14-20 In Mark we have stones, already built together, falling apart. In Samuel, Hannah is pursuing a keyst...

Pentecost +24 - Year B Mark 13:1-8 The destruction of the Temple in 70 CE becomes but the first of the birthpangs of new life after Mark’s a...

Pentecost +23 - Year B don't and do don’t listen to scribes who describe strong boundaries and fail to walk their talk do listen to moth...

Pentecost +23 - Year B Hebrews 9:24-28 No Plato here - no copies. No Sisyphus here - no again and againing. Still a little Aaron here - one ...

Pentecost +23 - Year B Psalm 127 This sounds more like a Proverb that has lost its way and ended up in the Psalms. It also is of a very masc...

Pentecost +23 - Year B Ruth 3:1-5, 4:13-17 Speaking of widows who put in all they have, Ruth follows here in Tamar’s (both of them) footstep...