The Risk of Speech (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost)
Awet Andemicael and Greg Sterling discuss the power of speech, risk in hymnody… and middle school!… in James 3:1-12. The text is appointed for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, in Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary.
Patience and Prophecy (Third Sunday of Advent)
Judith Gundry and Adam Eitel discuss patience, endurance of suffering, and the challenges of family conflict in James 5:7-10. The text is appointed for the Third Sunday of Advent, in Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary.