ProvokingTheGospel: Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 27 (31): November 7, 2021: Mark 12:38-44

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What if Jesus’ mother was a widow?

ProvokingTheGospel: Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 25 (30): October 24, 2021: Jeremiah 31:7-9

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Life leaves marks.

ProvokingTheGospel, episode 1.14: Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 25 (29): October 17, 2021: Mark 10:35-45

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We do not believe what Jesus said.

ProvokingTheGospel: Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 23 (28): October 10, 2021: Mark 10:17-31

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“Sell whatever you have…” Seriously?

ProvokingTheGospel, episode 1.12: Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 22 (27): October 3, 2021: Mark 10:2-16

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“The reign of God flows out from children?”

ProvokingTheGospel, Episode 1.11: Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 21 (26): September 26, 2021: Mark 9:38-50

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It’s a good thing to ask questions of a messiah. They can be very dangerous, especially when they are followed by religious extremists.

ProvokingTheGospel, Episode 1.10: Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 20 (25): September 19, 2021: Mark 9:30-37

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Even in the midst of Roman brutality, power is NOT the center of the world.

ProvokingTheGospel, Episode 1.9: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 19 (24): September 12, 2021: Mark 8:27-38

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What if “cross-bearing” is not about soteriology or discipleship? Just asking.

ProvokingTheGospel, Episode 1.8: Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 18 (23): September 5, 2021: Mark 7:24-37

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What does it mean that the messiah has to learn a lesson?

ProvokingTheGospel, Episode 1.7: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 17 (22): August 29, 2021: Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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If it is wrong to say “Korban” to your parents, why do interpreters have Jesus say exactly that to his mother in Mark 3?