Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost; 3 October 2021; Proper 22B (RCL); Job 1:1, 2:1-10; Psalm 26; Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16.
The modern preacher always feels the need to tread carefully with this Gospel reading, knowing that a fair number of the congregation will be divorced persons. Shame is not always a helpful homelitic aid. And this is the only saying of Jesus (besides the last supper) quoted by Paul, so it seems pretty firmly fixed in the tradition. What to do?
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