Episode 17: Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, 2024

In this episode of Working the Lectionary, your hosts John Bottomley and Brendan Byrne examine readings for Pentecost and Trinity Sunday. What does the ancient reading from Ezekiel tell us about our tendency to skip over the "bad stuff" and get to the bits we find positive and hopeful - and what does this tell us about our need to remember our involvement in the structures of injustice, and how those structures destroy covenantal relationships? The reading from the Gospel According to John likewise challenges our tendency to separate the personal from the political and thereby differentiate between "truth" and "facts" - and why it is disastrous for the church to divide the pastoral from the prophetic, the private from the public.

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