Tomorrow's sermon

I have recently read the book Zealot: the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan. I am still plowing through the notes, which are inconveniently not crossreferenced with footnotes from the text. Nothing in it is new to me, although the synthesis is new. He references approvingly two of my professors from Columbia and Dunwoodie Seminary: Morton Smith and Fr. John Meier. I refer to the book in the sermon, and I would urge anyone who is interested in the question of the "historical" Jesus to read the book. Fox News recently interviewed Aslan, and the interviewer was skeptical that a Muslim could write a book about Jesus. Aslan is a scholar of religion, and is as entitled to write a book on Scripture as anyone else is.

In any case, here is my sermon for tomorrow, behind a cut in case you aren't interested.

August 11, 2013 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sermon delivered at St. John the Evangelist, 10AM.
First Reading: Wisdom 18:6-9
Epistle: Hebrews 11:1-2,8-19; Gospel: Luke 12:32-48
“…he went forth not knowing where he was going…”

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