All Saints Sunday, November 2, 2003.(Preaching helps: seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost--day of thanksgiving, Series B)

From: Currents in Theology and Mission | Date: August 1, 2003 | Copyright information

Isaiah 25:6-9

Psalm 24

Revelation 21:1-6a

John 11:32-44

Once again, the festival of All Saints rather than historical context provides the interpretive filter through which we hear these readings. A first reading suggests that these are funeral texts. This is very appropriate, inasmuch as All Saints is the day on which the church remembers its beloved dead. In a death-denying culture that races through the grieving process as fast as it...

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