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The Sunday lectionary reading for the Second Sunday before Advent in Year B is Mark 13.1–8. This feels a little odd, in that ...

The Holy Spirit, working through the writers of the Revised Common Lectionary, provided an apt text for the end of election ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary for the Third Sunday before Advent at the end of this Year B is Mark 1.14-20, the beginning of ...

A member of an Orthodox synagogue, Levine speaks frequently to Christian audiences. Western Christians have long read the Passion narrative from John’s Gospel at Good Friday worship, a tradition that ...

THIS Sunday is the last Gospel from Mark in this church year (Year B). Next week, Christ the King draws its Gospel from John.

So what just happened? Has a new era begun in the 2,000-year-old history of Christianity, and an old one ended? Or has nothing changed? Delegates to the ...

In many churches, these readings are scheduled a year in advance, in a list format known as a lectionary. These follow the liturgical year and are completed in a three-year cycle. This enables ...

Before Holy Angels was established, local deaf Catholics struggled to find a place to practice their faith in ASL.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

The synod concluded without movement on the question of women deacons, but kept the issue open. That was frustrating to advocates but also has helped some remain hopeful.

Popular radical education has a long tradition in South Africa, one that is intertwined with the country’s history of resistance against oppression. From the night schools run by the Communist Party ...