Lectionary Commentaries » Lectionary Commentaries: Year C

Root from Dry Ground - Kiara Jorgenson reflects on the theme of water during Holy Week. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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From Dust, To Dust  – Kris Litman-Koon explores how Ash Wednesday is an invitation to reassess what we value with ...
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Divine Recapitulation – Robert Saler reflects on being called to join God's material improvisation of salvation. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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Earth's Child – Tom Mundahl reflects on the arrival of the Prince of Peace. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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All of Earth Rejoices at the Birth of Jesus - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day readings ...
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Worshiping the True King, the Cosmic Christ - Leah Schade reflects on honoring the cosmic vulnerability. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Bigger than That - Nick Utphall reflects on our politics and the eternal results of the Cosmic Christ. Care for ...
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A New Song - Nick Utphall reflects on the voice of the forest in concert with us. Care for Creation ...
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Preaching the End of the World in the Face of the End of the World - Leah Schade reflects on ...
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Communion of All Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on our refusal to be the responsible consciousness of creation. Care for ...
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Saints Below and Here - Nick Utphall reflects on God’s presence beyond and within the lives of the saints. Care ...
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Looking Around for God - Tom Mundahl reflects on a reformation that recognizes God's presence in all creation. Care for ...
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Looking Past the Fortress - Nick Utphall reflects on the river that makes God glad and flows with grace. Care for ...
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God’s Presence and Blessing - Tom Mundahl reflects on the source of our care for creation. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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The Power of Servanthood to Break Through Boundaries - Tom Mundahl reflects on what it means to be servants of ...
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Care for Creation and Wait in Patience - Tom Mundahl reflects on a life of faith and trust. Care for ...
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What Hope Is There Unless We Address Our Consumption? - Tom Mundah reflects on the inequality of wealth. Care for Creation ...
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Embracing a Gift Economy - Tom Mundahl reflects on the problem of wealth. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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Interceding Before Corporations, Military Organizations, and Governments That Destroy God’s Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on the "priestly task." Care for ...
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Holding Steady the Vision of the Common Good – Amy Carr reflects on calculating the cost. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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Detachment as Creation Justice – brother ken, OLF, reflects on what we are willing to let go. Care for Creation ...
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Keeping Ecological Theology from Becoming Ideology - Robert Saler reflects on the gift of opening ourselves to critique. Care for ...
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Guests and Hosts – Amy Carr reflects on humility and the company we value. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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Following Jesus into Earth: A New Reformation? - Robert Saler reflects on the implications of theological transformation. Care for Creation ...
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The Tension Between Action and Rest - Robert Saler reflects on the right balance. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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To Climate Change Deniers and Climate Despairers - Amy Carr reflects on variable gospel notes to the hard of heart ...
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Hard Sayings of Jesus: Blessing or Naming? - Robert Saler reflects on being a clear-eyed observer of human freedom and ...
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Freedom from Fear is Freedom to Act - Robert Saler reflects on the conerstone Lutheran slogan, "justification by grace through ...
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Right Delight is the Basis of Right Action - Robert Saler reflects on contemplation and action. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Thinking with Nature Inspires Wonder - Robert Saler reflects on Jesus' invitation towards valuation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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Is Distance Our Security? - Robert Saler reflects on embracing interdependence joyfully. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
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On Contentiously Communing with God for Planetary Well-Being - Amy Carr reflects on a deeper asking, searching, knocking. Care for ...
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Hospitality in Many Forms – Kris Litman-Koon explores how hospitality is displayed in our lectionary readings, and how ecological hospitality ...
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The Fruits Among Us – Kris Litman-Koon ponders how relationships – divine, human, and ecological – are a common theme ...
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Living in the Presence of God – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the care of all God's creation being within our reach when ...
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Down-to-Earth Benefits for the Entire Community – Dennis Ormseth reflects on stepping out beyond the religious competition to curry God's favor and ...
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We Reap What We Sow  – Amy Carr reflects on forging just relations for both land and people. Care for Creation ...
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Love the Neighborhood As Yourself! – Dennis Ormseth reflects on bringing the human economy into consonance with the Great Economy. Care ...
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Generosity, Candor in Brokenness, and Resilient Hope  – Dennis Ormseth wonders if we can be freed by a “cultural exorcism” to ...
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Play Requires Partnership – Dennis Ormseth asks, "What if we thought of Christ as Wisdom, God’s playmate who leads us into joyful ...
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“Generosity over scarcity, brokenness in the face of denial, and hope in the place of despair.”  Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary ...
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The Praising Human – Dennis Ormseth reflects on God's love of life and delight in creation serving as a model for ...
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Sabbath Fufillment – Tom Mundahl reflects on striving to enable all members of creation to be what God intended them ...
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Ecumenism as Ecological Lure – Robert Saler reflects on relating Christian discipleship to care for creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Being “at Home” – Tom Mundahl reflects on our connection with God and our relationship with the natural world. Care ...
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The Emboldening and Vital Courage of God – Robert Saler reflects on biblical insights of power, religion, and material pneumatology. Care ...
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Called to Care for All Creatures - Tom Mundahl reflects on what it means to join in the hymn of ...
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The Rhythm of Creation Includes Breakfast on the Beach – Carmen Retzlaff reflects on the story of Jesus meeting his ...
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Singing the "Hymn of Praise" with Gusto – Tom Mundahl reflects on the Risen One intensifying our purpose, especially our ...
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The Shepherd, the Flock, and the Lamb – Carmen Retzlaff reflects on our identity of sheep in apocalyptic times. Care ...
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“Behold, the dwelling place of God is with humankind.” – Tom Mundahl reflects on all being made new. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Debonair Care, or Use in Love –Robert Saler reflects on having a servant's heart for creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Words Appropriate for the Season of Advent? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the hope the Christian gospel offers an unjust world ...
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Stay Together, Encourage One Another, and Actually Act - Tom Mundahl reflects on the connection between preparing the way and changing our ...
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A Trinitarian / Ecclesial Tapestry – Robert Saler reflects on living into the economy of trinity and church. Care for Creation ...
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Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad in It – Tom Mundahl reflects on celebrating the New World Order brought about by ...
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Atmospheric and Earthly Christ – Carmen Retzlaff reflects on imagery of sky and solidity in the Easter 2 texts. Care ...
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Called to Re-member What Affirms Our Membership in a Newly Whole and Holy Creation. - Tom Mundahl reflects on the ...
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Passion and Ecology – Robert Saler reflects on the Spirit of life pulsating through death. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Creation's Interest – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the strength and cost of refusing the way of domination. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Celebrating Care for Its Own Sake – Robert Saler reflects on caring for the dying creation as an act of hope ...
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Overcoming Domination – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the "new thing" God is doing. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
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To Both Bless and Harm - Robert Saler reflects on human systems of self-reliance that prevent us from using the gift ...
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New Creation! – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the promise that comes from the very heart of God. Care for Creation Commentary ...
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Let Repentance Linger - Robert Saler reflects on refusing to rush to easy consolation to create space for authentic encounter ...
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Confronting Dualism - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God who is both creator and servant of creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Of Land and Heaven – Robert Saler reflects on where our citizenship lies. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
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Creational Blessing – Dennis Ormseth reflects on resisting domination and living into God's promises. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Blessed Are Those Who Walk Lightly on the Earth - Robert Saler reflects on the freedom bestowed by God's grace ...
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Rejecting Dominion – Dennis Ormseth reflects on our status as children of God. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  ...
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Returning to Our Origins  - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the start of our Lenten journey. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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An Environmentalist-Turned-Pastor Reflects on Ash Wednesday - Lois Sorensen. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  Readings for Ash ...
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Eco-Reflections on the Season of Epiphany in Year C for Preaching and Devotions By David Rhoads Epiphany is the season ...
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The Journeying One -  Tom Mundahl reflects on living toward a new creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  ...
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Liberation of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on what God's embodiment means for creation.        Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
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Contemplating the Arc of Peace - Mark Ditmanson reflects on what it means to pray that we might be "instruments of ...
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A Delight to the Mind and Soul - Mark Ditmanson reflects on what the lives of trees can teach us ...
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The Holy Seed Is Its Stump - Mark Ditmanson reflects on God's way of bringing life out of devastation. Care ...
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Erasing Old Limits - Tom Mundahl reflects on new and imaginative communities of caritas. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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A "Greta Thunberg" Sermon - Tom Martin reflects on loving pesky teenagers and grizzly bears. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Feasting on the Abundance - Tom Mundahl reflects on what happens when we love all life and care for all ...
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All Will Indeed Be Well - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Wisdom as the careful husbanding of resources for the protection, enhancement, ...
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Justice and Renewal for Humans, Other Creatures, and the Land - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the biblical Year of Jubilee authorizing ...
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Jubilee Thinking - Tom Mundahl reflects on restoring a sense of proper order.  Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
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NOW. - Tom Martin reflects on the prophets and Jesus calling us to ecojustice "today." Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Call It Love - Dennis Ormseth reflects on whether we must appeal to “self-interest” in order to love creation as our ...
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Grace Is Wet - Tom Martin reflects on how water pervades, undergrids, and provides the medium for all life, both ...
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Has God Thrown a New Star in Our Sky? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on needing wisdom to sustain us as we ...
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The Earth Awaits - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Creation itself participating when the Spirit descends in bodily form as a dove. Care for ...
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The New Beginning of a New Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God who both levels mountains and raises valleys and ...
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Giving, Receiving, and Giving Again - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the fullness of God. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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A Time for Gathering – Tom Mundahl reflects on freeing all creatures to dwell in peace and mutual respect. Care for ...
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Wisdom's Playfield – Dennis Ormseth reflects on partnering with Wisdom in the play of discovery and the exercise of responsibility ...
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Holding All Things Together – Tom Mundahl reflects on being a new wearer of clothes. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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Behold – Tom Mundahl reflects on recovering a sense of the mysterium tremendum. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
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Space and Time Are Opened for the Renewal of Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on all things falling within reach ...
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Coming Home - Tom Mundahl reflects on a return from exile. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings ...
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God's Plan -  Nick Utphall reflects on the order(s) of the universe and a baby. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
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And on Earth – Peace: A Christmas Eve Eco-Reflection by Leah D. Schade Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...
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Displaced and Found by God -  Nick Utphall reflects on the place of baby Jesus in a pandemic. Care for ...
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Reason for All of God’s Creation to Rejoice! - By Dennis Ormseth reflects on removal of the fear of disaster and ...
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What Then Shall We Do? - Tom Mundahl reflects on bearing fruit. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
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God Will Dwell with Them - Tom Mundahl reflects on committing to a place, its people, and its very humus. Care ...
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Wisdom teaches that what God has gathered up in Christ, we humans should make healthy, free from toxins, cleaned of ...
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Finding the peace of God amidst storms, we are called to wake up and face up to the storms we ...
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There is one Wisdom, one Beauty, one Mind that flows through the universe. - Leah Schade reflects on the Fourth Sunday ...
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Series C (2015-2016) By Tom Mundahl INTRODUCTION TO EPIPHANY If the purpose of the Church Year is to organize community ...
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Eco-Justice Commentary on the Common Lectionary for Lent in Year C 2016 by Dennis Ormseth Introduction to the Season Towards ...
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Our ecumenical companion site, www.LetAllCreationPraise.org , is maintained by long-time supporter and fellow Lutheran restoring creation, Nick Utphall. This site ...
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Join all the Earth in a new song to the Lord.   Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary—Year C by ...
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We must acknowledge that God is present in, with, and under all creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...
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Wisdom leads us to change our relationships with our animal brothers and sisters in God’s creation.  Leah Schade reflects on the ...
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We need wisdom to sustain us as we live with the rest of Earth community. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the ...
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