{"id":25832,"date":"2014-05-14T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T02:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=25832"},"modified":"2014-05-14T21:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T02:57:49","slug":"rachel-held-evans-is-blogging-the-lectionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/14\/rachel-held-evans-is-blogging-the-lectionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Held Evans is blogging the lectionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Held Evans<\/a>, an evangelical blogger whom I’ve mentioned here once or twice, recently had an “ah-ha!” moment about the Revised Common Lectionary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Suddenly, I liked the idea of having an \u201cassignment,\u201d a sort of spiritual and creative challenge that kept the focus on the text and not on me.\u00a0<\/strong>Furthermore, as I began preparing for\u00a0that sermon<\/a>, I discovered this whole world of online collaboration happening among clergy from Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Lutheran churches (and more!) all working through the same few passages in preparation for their services that week. \u00a0And they weren\u2019t just thinking about their sermons. They were joining with artists and musicians and liturgists and Sunday school teachers and writers and laypeople to think about how Luke 17:5-10 might translate into art, worship, poetry, children\u2019s messages, even bulletin designs. (Even after the sermon was finished, I loved checking the blogs and sermon podcasts of some of my favorite pastors to see their \u201ctake\u201d on the passage.)<\/p>\n

And it struck me:\u00a0This is\u00a0exactly<\/em>\u00a0how the Bible is meant to be engaged\u2014collaboratively, in community, with a diversity of people and perspectives represented.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Evans, growing up in an evangelical environment, wouldn’t have had exposure to lectionary-based worship. However, her writing – both in books and on her blog – is deeply interested in Scriptural hermeneutics and complexly honest ways of grappling with the Biblical texts. I am delighted to see such an immediate recognition of the benefits of a lectionary tradition, and I look forward to finding out what she does with it in this new series, in which she plans to engage the coming Sunday’s texts every Thursday as a regular feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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