Lectionary Commentaries » Lectionary Commentaries: Year C

Contemplating the Arc of Peace - Mark Ditmanson reflects on what it means to pray that we might be "instruments of ...

Preaching the End of the World in the Face of the End of the World - Leah Schade reflects on ...

Earth's Child – Tom Mundahl reflects on the arrival of the Prince of Peace. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

From Dust, To Dust  – Kris Litman-Koon explores how Ash Wednesday is an invitation to reassess what we value with ...

Root from Dry Ground - Kiara Jorgenson reflects on the theme of water during Holy Week. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Divine Recapitulation – Robert Saler reflects on being called to join God's material improvisation of salvation. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

All of Earth Rejoices at the Birth of Jesus - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day readings ...

Worshiping the True King, the Cosmic Christ - Leah Schade reflects on honoring the cosmic vulnerability. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Bigger than That - Nick Utphall reflects on our politics and the eternal results of the Cosmic Christ. Care for ...

A New Song - Nick Utphall reflects on the voice of the forest in concert with us. Care for Creation ...

Communion of All Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on our refusal to be the responsible consciousness of creation. Care for ...

Saints Below and Here - Nick Utphall reflects on God’s presence beyond and within the lives of the saints. Care ...

Looking Around for God - Tom Mundahl reflects on a reformation that recognizes God's presence in all creation. Care for ...

Looking Past the Fortress - Nick Utphall reflects on the river that makes God glad and flows with grace. Care for ...

God’s Presence and Blessing - Tom Mundahl reflects on the source of our care for creation. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

The Power of Servanthood to Break Through Boundaries - Tom Mundahl reflects on what it means to be servants of ...

Care for Creation and Wait in Patience - Tom Mundahl reflects on a life of faith and trust. Care for ...

What Hope Is There Unless We Address Our Consumption? - Tom Mundah reflects on the inequality of wealth. Care for Creation ...

Embracing a Gift Economy - Tom Mundahl reflects on the problem of wealth. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

Interceding Before Corporations, Military Organizations, and Governments That Destroy God’s Creation - Tom Mundahl reflects on the "priestly task." Care for ...

Holding Steady the Vision of the Common Good – Amy Carr reflects on calculating the cost. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

Detachment as Creation Justice – brother ken, OLF, reflects on what we are willing to let go. Care for Creation ...

Keeping Ecological Theology from Becoming Ideology - Robert Saler reflects on the gift of opening ourselves to critique. Care for ...

Guests and Hosts – Amy Carr reflects on humility and the company we value. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

Following Jesus into Earth: A New Reformation? - Robert Saler reflects on the implications of theological transformation. Care for Creation ...

The Tension Between Action and Rest - Robert Saler reflects on the right balance. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

To Climate Change Deniers and Climate Despairers - Amy Carr reflects on variable gospel notes to the hard of heart ...

Hard Sayings of Jesus: Blessing or Naming? - Robert Saler reflects on being a clear-eyed observer of human freedom and ...

Freedom from Fear is Freedom to Act - Robert Saler reflects on the conerstone Lutheran slogan, "justification by grace through ...

Right Delight is the Basis of Right Action - Robert Saler reflects on contemplation and action. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Thinking with Nature Inspires Wonder - Robert Saler reflects on Jesus' invitation towards valuation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

Is Distance Our Security? - Robert Saler reflects on embracing interdependence joyfully. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...

On Contentiously Communing with God for Planetary Well-Being - Amy Carr reflects on a deeper asking, searching, knocking. Care for ...

Hospitality in Many Forms – Kris Litman-Koon explores how hospitality is displayed in our lectionary readings, and how ecological hospitality ...

The Fruits Among Us – Kris Litman-Koon ponders how relationships – divine, human, and ecological – are a common theme ...

Living in the Presence of God – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the care of all God's creation being within our reach when ...

Down-to-Earth Benefits for the Entire Community – Dennis Ormseth reflects on stepping out beyond the religious competition to curry God's favor and ...

We Reap What We Sow  – Amy Carr reflects on forging just relations for both land and people. Care for Creation ...

Love the Neighborhood As Yourself! – Dennis Ormseth reflects on bringing the human economy into consonance with the Great Economy. Care ...

Generosity, Candor in Brokenness, and Resilient Hope  – Dennis Ormseth wonders if we can be freed by a “cultural exorcism” to ...

Play Requires Partnership – Dennis Ormseth asks, "What if we thought of Christ as Wisdom, God’s playmate who leads us into joyful ...

“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 ...

The Praising Human – Dennis Ormseth reflects on God's love of life and delight in creation serving as a model for ...

Sabbath Fufillment – Tom Mundahl reflects on striving to enable all members of creation to be what God intended them ...

Ecumenism as Ecological Lure – Robert Saler reflects on relating Christian discipleship to care for creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Being “at Home” – Tom Mundahl reflects on our connection with God and our relationship with the natural world. Care ...

The Emboldening and Vital Courage of God – Robert Saler reflects on biblical insights of power, religion, and material pneumatology. Care ...

Called to Care for All Creatures - Tom Mundahl reflects on what it means to join in the hymn of ...

The Rhythm of Creation Includes Breakfast on the Beach – Carmen Retzlaff reflects on the story of Jesus meeting his ...

Singing the "Hymn of Praise" with Gusto – Tom Mundahl reflects on the Risen One intensifying our purpose, especially our ...

The Shepherd, the Flock, and the Lamb – Carmen Retzlaff reflects on our identity of sheep in apocalyptic times. Care ...

“Behold, the dwelling place of God is with humankind.” – Tom Mundahl reflects on all being made new. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Debonair Care, or Use in Love –Robert Saler reflects on having a servant's heart for creation. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Words Appropriate for the Season of Advent? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the hope the Christian gospel offers an unjust world ...

Stay Together, Encourage One Another, and Actually Act - Tom Mundahl reflects on the connection between preparing the way and changing our ...

A Trinitarian / Ecclesial Tapestry – Robert Saler reflects on living into the economy of trinity and church. Care for Creation ...

Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad in It – Tom Mundahl reflects on celebrating the New World Order brought about by ...

Atmospheric and Earthly Christ – Carmen Retzlaff reflects on imagery of sky and solidity in the Easter 2 texts. Care ...

Called to Re-member What Affirms Our Membership in a Newly Whole and Holy Creation. - Tom Mundahl reflects on the ...

Passion and Ecology – Robert Saler reflects on the Spirit of life pulsating through death. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Creation's Interest – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the strength and cost of refusing the way of domination. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Celebrating Care for Its Own Sake – Robert Saler reflects on caring for the dying creation as an act of hope ...

Overcoming Domination – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the "new thing" God is doing. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...

To Both Bless and Harm - Robert Saler reflects on human systems of self-reliance that prevent us from using the gift ...

New Creation! – Dennis Ormseth reflects on the promise that comes from the very heart of God. Care for Creation Commentary ...

Let Repentance Linger - Robert Saler reflects on refusing to rush to easy consolation to create space for authentic encounter ...

Confronting Dualism - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God who is both creator and servant of creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Of Land and Heaven – Robert Saler reflects on where our citizenship lies. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...

Creational Blessing – Dennis Ormseth reflects on resisting domination and living into God's promises. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Blessed Are Those Who Walk Lightly on the Earth - Robert Saler reflects on the freedom bestowed by God's grace ...

Rejecting Dominion – Dennis Ormseth reflects on our status as children of God. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  ...

Returning to Our Origins  - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the start of our Lenten journey. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

An Environmentalist-Turned-Pastor Reflects on Ash Wednesday - Lois Sorensen. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  Readings for Ash ...

Eco-Reflections on the Season of Epiphany in Year C for Preaching and Devotions By David Rhoads Epiphany is the season ...

The Journeying One -  Tom Mundahl reflects on living toward a new creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary  ...

Liberation of Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on what God's embodiment means for creation.        Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...

A Delight to the Mind and Soul - Mark Ditmanson reflects on what the lives of trees can teach us ...

The Holy Seed Is Its Stump - Mark Ditmanson reflects on God's way of bringing life out of devastation. Care ...

Erasing Old Limits - Tom Mundahl reflects on new and imaginative communities of caritas. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

A "Greta Thunberg" Sermon - Tom Martin reflects on loving pesky teenagers and grizzly bears. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Feasting on the Abundance - Tom Mundahl reflects on what happens when we love all life and care for all ...

All Will Indeed Be Well - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Wisdom as the careful husbanding of resources for the protection, enhancement, ...

Justice and Renewal for Humans, Other Creatures, and the Land - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the biblical Year of Jubilee authorizing ...

Jubilee Thinking - Tom Mundahl reflects on restoring a sense of proper order.  Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...

NOW. - Tom Martin reflects on the prophets and Jesus calling us to ecojustice "today." Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Call It Love - Dennis Ormseth reflects on whether we must appeal to “self-interest” in order to love creation as our ...

Grace Is Wet - Tom Martin reflects on how water pervades, undergrids, and provides the medium for all life, both ...

Has God Thrown a New Star in Our Sky? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on needing wisdom to sustain us as we ...

The Earth Awaits - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Creation itself participating when the Spirit descends in bodily form as a dove. Care for ...

The New Beginning of a New Creation - Dennis Ormseth reflects on God who both levels mountains and raises valleys and ...

Giving, Receiving, and Giving Again - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the fullness of God. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

A Time for Gathering – Tom Mundahl reflects on freeing all creatures to dwell in peace and mutual respect. Care for ...

Wisdom's Playfield – Dennis Ormseth reflects on partnering with Wisdom in the play of discovery and the exercise of responsibility ...

Holding All Things Together – Tom Mundahl reflects on being a new wearer of clothes. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...

Behold – Tom Mundahl reflects on recovering a sense of the mysterium tremendum. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...

Space and Time Are Opened for the Renewal of Earth - Dennis Ormseth reflects on all things falling within reach ...

Coming Home - Tom Mundahl reflects on a return from exile. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary  Readings ...

God's Plan -  Nick Utphall reflects on the order(s) of the universe and a baby. Care for Creation Commentary on ...

And on Earth – Peace: A Christmas Eve Eco-Reflection by Leah D. Schade Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised ...

Displaced and Found by God -  Nick Utphall reflects on the place of baby Jesus in a pandemic. Care for ...

Reason for All of God’s Creation to Rejoice! - By Dennis Ormseth reflects on removal of the fear of disaster and ...

What Then Shall We Do? - Tom Mundahl reflects on bearing fruit. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...

God Will Dwell with Them - Tom Mundahl reflects on committing to a place, its people, and its very humus. Care ...

Wisdom teaches that what God has gathered up in Christ, we humans should make healthy, free from toxins, cleaned of ...

Finding the peace of God amidst storms, we are called to wake up and face up to the storms we ...

There is one Wisdom, one Beauty, one Mind that flows through the universe. - Leah Schade reflects on the Fourth Sunday ...

Series C (2015-2016) By Tom Mundahl INTRODUCTION TO EPIPHANY If the purpose of the Church Year is to organize community ...

Eco-Justice Commentary on the Common Lectionary for Lent in Year C 2016 by Dennis Ormseth Introduction to the Season Towards ...

Our ecumenical companion site, www.LetAllCreationPraise.org , is maintained by long-time supporter and fellow Lutheran restoring creation, Nick Utphall. This site ...

Join all the Earth in a new song to the Lord.   Care for Creation Commentary on the Common Lectionary—Year C by ...

We must acknowledge that God is present in, with, and under all creation. Care for Creation Commentary on the Common ...

Wisdom leads us to change our relationships with our animal brothers and sisters in God’s creation.  Leah Schade reflects on the ...

We need wisdom to sustain us as we live with the rest of Earth community. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the ...