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Seventh Sunday of Easter

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mary Donovan Turner
Many of the Easter season lections remind us that how we treat each other is of vast, and even primary, importance to God. We have received the commandment to love one another; the resurrected Jesus reminded Peter that the way to show love for him is by feeding and tending his sheep. That our relationships matter is a constant thread throughout the Easter season. And so it is interesting that the... Read more...

Philip L. Culbertson
Chapter 12 is a pivotal point, both in the book of 1 Samuel and in the political life of the nation of Israel. Walter Brueggemann, First and Second Samuel, Interpretation (Louisville: John Knox, 1990), 89. It also challenges us today, for these verses record the prophet Samuel's divinely inspired call to be wary of governmental systems, of national politics, insofar as they draw our attention... Read more...

David L. Tiede
The reading from Acts 16:16-34 (RCL, BCP) follows directly on the first reading in the Revised Common Lectionary for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, providing two more episodes of the first missionary encounters in Europe with the slave girl and her masters and the jailer and his family. These stories are rich in novelistic details, also providing numerous glimpses into these cross-cultural... Read more...

A View from the Hill: Editor's Weblog

David B. Lott
Editor of New Proclamation

The Ascension of Our Lord /
Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 25/May 28, 2006

The texts that become the focus for your preaching this week will depend in large part in how (and if) your congregation celebrates the Ascension. Some churches will commemorate this festival on its designated day, May 25. Others will take the "moveable feast" option and celebrate it on Sunday, rather than continue the Easter progression... Read more...

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