For my church peeps: Eric Lemonholm’s 2011 D.Min. thesis at Luther, which he turned into The Open-Source Lectionary, calls for a more fluid approach to lectionary use. ... His criticism echoes others: missing and disconnected texts. Lemonholm’s most striking example is love your enemies. The RCL actually assigns both Matthew’s version of that text and Luke’s. But in both cases it’s slated for the seventh Sunday after Epiphany, one of the Ordinary cycle’s odd benchwarming weeks—used only when the liturgical calendar’s stars align. Week seven didn’t make it into the Year A or C calendar between 2001 and 2011. A ten-year absence of Jesus’ command to love our enemies occurred, says Lemonholm, during the first ten years of the war on terror.” [It was skipped in 2013 this year, but will finally be read again in 2014.]
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:45:00 +0000