Surviving the Bible seeks to get your sermon/service prep jumpstarted by homing in on crucial issues and themes in the passages and talking through possible opportunities and issues in preaching the various texts. We’ll aim for Lectionary commentary that is sharp and practical, maybe seasoned with a pinch of snark.
Join Rev. Amy Piatt, Dr. Tripp Fuller, and guru impersonator Christian Piatt for some weekly fun.
Acts 5:27-32 Copping just the right attitude—what’s needed for civil disobedience. Speaking truth to authority and walking in costly commitment to God.
Psalm 150 The definitive Scriptural proof tex…
Isaiah 65:17-25 “New creation” means that God is up to a whole lot more than saving our souls. There is a process God is engaged in that we get to participate in.
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 This story tha…
What on earth is the Lectionary trying to do lead us into as we go through Holy Week? Tripp Hudgins, an ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Theological Union breaks it down for us. He lea…
Isaiah 50:4-9a The prophet models the cost of faithfulness to God, a pattern Jesus fulfills in his own faithful suffering. We learn what it means to be a good teacher—starting with listening and waki…
With Scott MacDougall back on the podcast we explore various dimensions of our embodied spirituality. The great things that God does for God’s people promise to be visible, tangible, and recognizable…
Hitting the halfway point in our Lenten journey, we find ourselves confronted with the wonder of God’s work of new creation and the extraordinary gift of forgiveness on which it’s based. We are invit…
It’s a cross-over podcast explosion! Homebrewed Christianity + LectioCast = zesty nerdiness!
In the CLOBBERCAST we tackle all the clobber passages some Christians use against the LGBTQ members of the…
Scott MacDougall joins us and provides a beautiful overview of how the rhythm of Lent leads us into reality that the life we live is often lived in a period of fallowness and death and decay—all the …
A migrant people are promised their land, and Jesus’ own migration promises to end in death. This week’s Lectionary texts take place in the gritty places where divine deliverance is needed.
Genesis 1…
We kick off Lent this week with some reflections on Lenten practices. And we see how entering into Lent after Transfiguration Sunday forces us to leave the glory of the mountain in favor of the road …
The holiness of God comes down to be in, with, and among the people. And Jesus subverts our understanding of the power of the profane. These are a series of stories about what happens when God shows …
Cindy Wang Brandt joins Daniel again, drawing our conversation into broader spheres of consideration than we might have found otherwise. She reminds us of the importance of children—how this is astou…
For the third Sunday after Epiphany we have the appearance of Jesus at the Synagogue of Nazareth. We get a glimpse of Jesus’ mission through his reading of Isaiah. A social gospel manifesto. The Spir…
It’s the Second Sunday After Epiphany and we are joined by Cindy Wag Brandt for some LectioCast fun!
Isaiah 62:1-5 Celebration. Praise. Delight. We’re familiar with all these—but are we ready to see…
Eric Barreto wraps up his tour of duty by helping usher us into Epiphany.
Isaiah 43:1-7 A HUGE REVEAL! The deepest vocational longing of Daniel’s heart is laid bare! Also, there is intimate language …
Eric Barreto is back to help us round off our Christmas episodes. We catch a vision of God creating a unified people in Christ, and Eric calls us to more faithfully interweave our understandings of h…
Eric Barreto leads off by inviting us to embrace the fact that we always read in community. Everyone’s reading is a gift and value for the church. We see characters all around the edges of the storie…
Margaret Aymer Oget joins for the final installment of our Advent series. Our wide-ranging discussion ties together texts, the character of God, first advent, and second Advent. We remember what it’s…