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A Visitor, a Mapmaker and a Banquet
Psalm 23
4th Sunday of Easter - Year B
May 03, 2009
The Rev. Benjamin Anthony (TEC)For good or for ill--and mostly for ill--religion and theology have become forms of technology. Religion can be construed as a technology in the sense that there are experts who dispense a form of knowledge offered for the consumption of an untrained public audience. This, I think, gets the practice of religion and theology badly, badly wrong. Perhaps in this phenomenon we might find a partial explanation for a growing generation of people who identify as spiritual and not religious. Religion and theology are for the experts; however, spirituality is immediate, personal: universal truths experienced and apprehended without the cost--or value--of particularity or enduring substance.
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Slanted Truth
Romans 8:12-17
Trinity Sunday - Year B
June 11, 2006
The Rev. Shannon Johnson Kershner (PCUSA)I am a lectionary preacher. Every week in my congregation, we center the service around the particular common-lectionary texts for that specific Sunday. Those selections follow the church year, and therefore, so do our worship services. Some preachers feel constricted by the lectionary. I, however, deeply appreciate it. It makes me preach and consider biblical passages I might not necessarily choose for myself. It forces me to preach on a wide variety of Scripture. With all of that said, however, I have struggled this week with the lectionary selections. Actually, I have struggled with these particular texts in their relationship to today's celebration of Trinity Sunday.
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