Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Dialogue

Pentecost +21 — Year C 2 Timothy 2:8-15 All words are imprisoning. Event as they leap to mind from their metaphoric ground to break...

Pentecost +21 — Year C Psalm 66:1-12 Expressing joy is deep work requiring a strong base. Before going further you can strengthen y...

Pentecost +21 — Year C Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 Displaced. Exiled. Refugee. These words and more like them are artifacts of cruelty tramp...

Pentecost +21 — Year C Luke 17:11-19 Two notices here. First, Lepers are an excluded people. It matters not what other identity...

Pentecost +20 — Year C World Communion Sunday Lamentations 1:1-6; 3:19-26 A rewrite — How lonely sits a church that ...

Pentecost +20 — Year C Luke 17:5-10 It takes a good deal of trust that forgiveness is the way to go. This is particularly true when...

Pentecost +19 — Year C daily bread is a dream for countless millions were it only one weeping would be in order weeping clean...

Pentecost +19 — Year C 1 Timothy 6:6-19 Fight the good fight. This is where we wrestle with what to trust. Here it is phrased i...

Pentecost +19 — Year C Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 It’s the pits when the snare of the fowler and the deadly pestilence we need rescuing from tu...

Here is a comic strip that plays well with the Luke and Jeremiah passages this week: A Day at the Park . Enjoy.

Pentecost +19 — Year C Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 We ignore verses 3b-5 at our peril. This is where important energy for the passage resides...

Pentecost +19 - Year C Luke 16:19-31 Whether ignoring the poor by sticking a nose in a newspaper, attending to Facebook, or listening to...

Pentecost +18 - Year C  1 Timothy 2:1-7 Remembering that prayer is more than private words and is connected to decisions to act in ...

Pentecost +18 - Year C  Psalm 79:1-9 How is one to practice being shrewd in relationship to finally doing what is right—forgiving d...

Pentecost +18 - Year C  Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 After 40+ years of legislated United Methodist discrimination against gays and lesbians b...

Pentecost +18 - Year C  Luke 16:1-13 As you forgive, so you will be forgiven is a difficult lesson to learn. We will put it off...

Pentecost +17 - Year C  ouch to awe lost sheep lost coins lost boys lost opportunity lost innocence lost direction ev...

Pentecost +17 - Year C  1 Timothy 1:12-17 How convenient that in matters of belief ignorance is a blessing, whereas in law it is no...

Pentecost +17 - Year C  Jeremiah 4:11-28 Even though it is difficult to break beyond your experience, the values of your community,...

Pentecost +17 - Year C  Luke 15:1-10 Let’s see, Chapter 14 ended with “Let anyone with ears to hear listen!” Now, Chapter 15 op...