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- May 5, 2012
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The "submit" passage is not in our lectionary, but our priest chose to acknowledge it this morning anyway. The Revised Common Lectionary has been taking us through Ephesians -- today's reading was from Ephesians 5 -- but it carefully omits the "wives submit to your husbands" and "slaves obey your masters" passages. During his sermon this morning, the priest mentioned that the "wives submit" passage is one we won't be reading, nodded to it briefly in a way that suggests to me that he does not, in fact, demand submission from his wife, and then went on to the main sermon theme of living in love in a family-like community. (The sense was that there was more he could say about the household-virtues section at the end of Ephesians, but then the sermon would have been 40 minutes instead of 20.)
So, interesting. An approach kinda like the one bekkilyn was suggesting, even though the troublesome passage isn't actually in our lectionary.
So, interesting. An approach kinda like the one bekkilyn was suggesting, even though the troublesome passage isn't actually in our lectionary.
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