Mark 1:21-28 It's surprising that the demoniac was in the synagogue at all. Here's a quintessentially impure person in the middle of a Jewish worship service where, I assume, much of the talk was about purity. After Jesus teaches in the synagogue, the people there express surprise that his preaching is not like the preaching … Continue reading The Demoniac at the Synagogue in Capernaum
Author: KPB Stevens
Saint Brigid
Here's the first page of a comic about Saint Brigid's life, in preparation for her feast day on Wednesday.
Jonah
In collecting resources for preaching about Jonah, I found the following: See Jonah Run: Comic Narrative in the Book of Jonah by Beverly Beem. A very good survey of Jewish midrash surrounding the book of Jonah can be found in A biblical text and its afterlives: the survival of Jonah in western culture by Yvonne Sherwood. A … Continue reading Jonah
The Amazing Underhill Trinity Sunday Zoetrope
First preached on June 19th, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCQQYVg1D9g What do horses look like when they gallop? For centuries, no one knew the answer to this question. A galloping horse moves too fast for the human eye. For centuries, people who looked at horses, and people who painted horses, argued about whether a galloping horse ever had … Continue reading The Amazing Underhill Trinity Sunday Zoetrope
Birds and Two Boys
First preached on July 31st, 2011 There's a painting by John Everett Millais called "Christ in the House of His Parents." In it, Jesus is a little boy, standing in his father's carpentry shop. Joseph, behind him, is building a door out of raw, yellow wood. Jesus has cut his hand on a nail … Continue reading Birds and Two Boys
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