Episode 11: Pentecost 6 & 7, 2023

In this episode of Working the Lectionary, your hosts John Bottomley and Brendan Byrne explore a reading from The Gospel According to Matthew for Pentecost 6, and discuss how Jesus' invitation to rest in him also challenges us to re-asses how our assumptions and conventions prevent us from seeing God's liberating grace in the world. For Pentecost 7, a reading from Genesis becomes the lens through which they examine the sometimes harsh realities of human existence and how the truthfulness of openness to those realities sets us free to be other than who we all-too-often are.

Theme music: Work Undone by Pearce Roswell. Available through Epidemic Music. Used under license. 

A NOTE ON THE AUDIO: Unfortunately, our primary recording technology malfunctioned during the recording of this episode, and we had to rely on backup technology to produce this episode. We have done our best to clean up the audio file, but it is of lesser quality than usual. Our apologies for the inconvenience.