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| Volume 64 Number 1 January 2010 |
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Liturgy and LentThis issue on the Lenten season is the second in our series exploring the rich resources available for preaching and teaching important themes connected to the Christian calendar. Marianne Meye Thompson’s survey of the lectionary texts invites us to return to God with a deepened trust and a renewed commitment to charity and service. Frank Burch Brown examines the capacity of both sacred and secular music to “infuse faith with heart and passion.” Robin Jensen demonstrates how simple forms and colors can deepen and expand the way we “visualize Lent.” Richard Griffiths discusses specific ways poetry can be a resource for personal devotion and liturgical worship during Lent. Paul Simpson Duke returns to the biblical texts that chart the Lenten journey with focused attention on the preacher’s task. Get access to this complete issue and all of our previous issues online by subscribing to Interpretation. |
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In This Issue TURNING AND RETURNING TO GOD: REFLECTIONS ON THE LECTIONARY TEXTS FOR LENT • Marianne Meye Thompson
While the season of Lent often prompts introspection, the various biblical texts set for Lent call not for turning inward, but turning again to God with renewed trust and gratitude for the steadfast love and faithfulness of God. Jesus’ death is the supreme example of the love of the God who has a steadfast commitment to deliver his people from captivity, whether captivity in Egypt, or captivity to sin and death. LENTEN PRACTICE IN A MUSICAL MODE • Frank Burch Brown The music most pertinent to Lent often engages and stretches us in ways that, while intimately connected with faith, can nonetheless be difficult to put into words or to accommodate within Sunday worship. Yet faith shaped by worship and Scripture informs the very capacity to hear—and be changed by—vital resonances in such music.. ASHES, SHADOWS, AND CROSSES: VISUALIZING LENT • Robin M. Jensen Lent is not normally thought of as a time for adding to or enriching the church’s liturgy with visual art. This essay explores possibilities for using visual art that corresponds to the purpose of the season of Lent as a time for somber reflection and reconciliation. POETRY AS A RESOURCE FOR WORSHIP IN THE LENTEN SEASON • Richard Griffiths This article examines the suitability of poetry as a vehicle for prayer, worship, and meditation. It then takes two specific examples of Lenten courses based on poetry: one based on depictions of the events of Holy Week and one based on a discussion of the problem of suffering in a world created by a loving God. It also looks at the liturgical use of the arts in Holy Week services. PREACHING IN THE HALF-LIGHT OF LENT • Paul Simpson Duke Lent is a season of difficult and gracious disclosures. To preach in Lent is to give speech to alienation and contradiction, to bear witness to the transforming mysteries of grace, and to recall the church to its memory, fidelity, and hope. |
Between Text & Sermon John 7:37–39
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