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  • Preaching Paths 11 August 2024 Proper 14B**

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Today’s 2nd NT reading, Ephesians 4:25-5:2, is concerned with practices befitting the Christologically-anchored, revolutionary reconstruction of human community described in Ephesians chapters 1-3. There is nothing specifically Christian about most of the vices, virtues and practices described in today’s text. Similar lists abound in ancient literature. What…

  • Preaching Paths 4 August 2024 Proper 13B

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Ephesians 4:1-16, the 2nd NT Reading for today, opens the paraenetic chapters (4-6) of this epistle. These verses presuppose the Christocentric theological panorama unfurled in chs 1-3. The writer’s addressees are the hard-pressed, mixed Jewish / Gentile congregations of Asia Minor. The very fact of fellowship between…

  • Trinity Sunday, 26th May 2024

    Romans 8:12-178:12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh– 8:13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 8:14 For all who are led…

  • Preaching Paths 26 May 2024 TRINITY Year B

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary On occasion, preachers find themselves taking issue with editorial divisions of a biblical text, as I do with our chosen text for Trinity Sunday Year B, Romans 8:12-17. Commentators express consternation at the “awkward transition” from v 13 to v 14, yet take for granted the editors’…