Lectionary@Lunch Live – Amos 7:7-15
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10), in the context of the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Ezekiel 2:1-5
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9), in the context of the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Lamentations 3:22-33
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8), in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Job 38:1-11
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 4th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7), in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Ezekiel 17:22-24
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 6), in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Genesis 3:8-15
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 5), in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Isaiah 6:1-8
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for Trinity Sunday, in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Ezekiel 37:1-14
Jumping ahead of the Easter season (when the first reading is taken from Acts), Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the Day of Pentecost, in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Isaiah 25:6-9
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the Resurrection of Our Lord (Easter), in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Zechariah 9:9-12
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for Palm Sunday/Sunday of the Passion, in the Year B lectionary
Lectionary@Lunch Live – Jeremiah 31:31-34
Prof. Bill Carr discusses the Old Testament pericope for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, in the Year B lectionary
Lent 1 • James 1:12–18 • February 22, 2015
By William W. Carr “Blessed is the man (Μακαριος ανηρ; see, e.g., Ps 1:1, אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי־הָאִ֗ישׁ) who remains steadfast under trial” (Jas 1:12, ESV). Preparing this homiletical help in September makes it difficult not to think about Christians in Iraq and in several areas of Africa, who are pursued, persecuted, kidnapped, and murdered because they are Christians. The stomach churns, the ..
Proper 24 • Isaiah 45:1–7 • October 19, 2014
By William Carr I struggle with the notion that some part of Isaiah, mainly Isaiah 40 and following, is “addressed to the sixth century,” an idea that conservative commentators also endorse. I know Isaiah is directed to “bind up the testimony, seal the teaching” (8:16), until people wonder of whom they should inquire (8:19), at which time the call ..
Epiphany 4 • Micah 6:1–8 • February 2, 2014
By William Carr In spring 2013, I taught an elective to our Residential Alternate Route students on the book of Micah. Early in the term, one of the students asked how the Seminary can afford to offer a full ten-week course to the study of just one book, as brief as Micah. I can imagine that most of ..
Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 19, 2013
By William Carr What in the world is going on? English versions seem so pedestrian, e.g., “When the day of Pentecost arrived” (ESV) or, simply, “came” (NIV and others). Though the verb συμπληροω occurs only three times (Lk 8:23; 9:51; and here), there is more to the arrival of Pentecost than flipping the calendar to ..
Proper 10 • Amos 7:7–15 • July 15, 2012
By William W. Carr The church never quite reads Amos. The Three-Year Lectionary employs it five times; the One-Year includes it once, as an option. We don’t read the prophetic books as books; we plug them in as we need them, and we don’t take time to find out what they are all about. For ..