Welcome to Wading in the Waters of the Word™ with A Women’s Lectionary
Gentle Readers, Followers, Preachers, Pray-ers, Thinkers and Visitors, Welcome!
Welcome to this space where you can share your worship – liturgy and preaching – preparations – using A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church. We begin in Advent 2021 with Year W, a single, standalone Lectionary volume that includes readings from all four Gospels. (We will continue with Year A in Advent 2022 to align with the broader Church.) In advance of each week, I will start the conversation and set the space for you all. I will come through time to time, but this is your space. Welcome!
Media Resources
A Women’s Lectionary For The Whole Church
Session 1, October 16, 2021
Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD at Myers Park Baptist Church
Plenary 1 | Translating Women Back Into Scripture for A #WomensLectionary
This session introduces participants to frequently unexamined aspects of biblical translation in commonly available bibles and the intentional choices made in “A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church.”
A Women’s Lectionary For The Whole Church
Session 2, October 16, 2021
Rev. Wil Gafney, PhD at Myers Park Baptist Church
Plenary 2 | Reading Women in Scripture for Preaching, Study, and Devotion
This session provides an overview of “A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church,” its genesis, production, and content. There is also an in-depth exploration of specific passages appointed for specific days including time for public and private reading and discussion.
Lectionary Lectio
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Trinity Sunday
Sovereign, Savior and Shelter;
Author, Word, and Translator;
Parent, Partner, and Friend;
Majesty, Mercy, and Mystery;
Creator, Christ, and Compassion;
Potter, Vessel, and Holy Fire;
Life, Liberation, and Love.
A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church
Pentecost
This year I heard the readings differently:
…there were dwelling in Jerusalem devout Jews from every nation under heaven… The reason the Church started as a multinational multiethnic beloved community is because we were born from a rich and diverse multinational multiethnic Judaism.
This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows the Spirit. The Western Church normalized the Greek gospels. But Jesus spoke Aramaic, the language still used in many Eastern churches. Jesus would not have misgendered the Spirit: This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees her nor knows her. You know her, because she abides with you, and she will be in you.
Let the Spirit have her day, her way and her will. And let the Church reflect the diversity of our heritage not just from the macro level when you add all of us together, but visible at the ground level from congregation to congregation. Monotonal monolingual congregations and their worship are part of the tapestry of the church they just don’t reflect it as clearly.