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Between 2 Sundays
by Mark Gladman
Reflecting on the lectionary readings gone and the readings to come as we move the weekly texts from contemplation to action. Hosted by Mark Beresford and Mark Gladman.
Episodes
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Year B, First Sunday of Advent (Sunday December 3, 2023)
Season 3, the new liturgical year, and Advent all begin in this episode of Between 2 Sundays. Join Mark B and Mark G as they reflect on the readings for Advent 1 through the lens of Hope. (The readings for First Sunday of Advent are: Isaiah 64:1-9 • Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 • 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 •…
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Year A, Reign of Christ Sunday (Sunday November 26, 2023)
What a conversation to finish out Season 2! As we end Year A of the lectionary and look to move into Advent for Year B, Mark B and Mark G discover the way that Reign of Christ/Christ the King Sunday not only leads us into the new Advent season, but also rounds out the year that has passed. Join…
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Year A, Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday November 12, 2023)
Have we lost the true sense of what it is to follow God, to be a people of God, and to walk towards salvation? Have we in the modern world become far too individualistic and lost the true essence of the corporate vision that God has for the world? In this week’s episode, Mark B and Mark G both...
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Year A, Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday October 05, 2023)
Leadership is always a challenge, as is “followship”. In this week’s readings, Mark B and Mark G see how moving these challenges must be faced in order to see things move forward. Join us for an intriguing episode of Between 2 Sundays. (The readings for Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost are:...
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Year A, Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday October 29, 2023)
While modern Christianity is often concerned with the individual, the story of God reminds us again and again that being a people of God is a corporate affair. In this epidose of Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G chew on what it means to carry on the vision and ultimately remembering who it…
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Year A, Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday October 15, 2023)
From Golden calves to wedding banquets, this weeks episode of between two Sundays is sure to get your thinking. Join Mark, B and Mark G for a deep dive into God’s grace, love, how we sometimes get it oh, so wrong. (The readings for Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost are: Exodus 32:1-14 and Psalm...
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Year A, Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday October 8, 2023)
When will we understand that God is enough for us? This week’s readings call us to those uneasy conversations in which we come to realise that the trappings and trimmings are not who we are or what we ultimately need. Instead we are called to release those things and risk resting in the hands of...
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Year A, Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday October 1, 2023)
Is the Lord among us or not? How do we work through the times when it seems like God is not with us. Or even “there”? In this episode of Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G open up the texts for this week and find the keys to reminding ourselves (and others) of the presence of God in and among…
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Year A, Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday September 24, 2023)
There are those who still don’t think social justice (even bordering on socialism) is a Biblical thing. If this is you, this is your episode. In this week’s Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G see revealed the concept of “Enough” and see laid out bear in the Hebrew Scriptures, Psalms, Paul and…
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Year A, Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday September 17, 2023)
What now? This is the question that should stay with us until we can answer it after significant events. In this deeply reflective episode of Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G encounter moments as Israel, Paul, and the disciples of Jesus are challenged with this life-altering question. (The...
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Year A, Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday September 3, 2023)
It’s all burning bushes, replacement creeds and backtracking on revelations about Jesus as Mark B and Mark G explore the readings for this coming Sunday. Join us for an episode of Bertween 2 Sundays where you will be challenged to consider who you are, and what it means to follow Jesus. (The...
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Year A, Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday August 27, 2023)
New beginnings, new revelations, new minds, and new opportunities. Throw in conversations about “messiah-ship”, and there’s a show. Join Mark B and Mark G for an intriguing discussion about this coming Sunday’s readings in this episode of Between 2 Sundays. (The readings for Twelfth Sunday after...
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Year A, Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday August 20, 2023)
What does it mean to dwell in unity? What does unity even really look like? And how much faith is really needed? In this episode of Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G explore the inner workings of forgiveness, reconciliation, inclusion, and why it only requires a crumb of faith to see God work…
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Year A, Tenth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday August 6, 2023)
Are you ready to rumble?! Yes, this is the wrestling episode!! This is the episode that makes sense of every episode of Between 2 Sundays thus far and yet to come. It’s time to learn how to wrestle again and understand what it is God does in that wrestling. New names, new opportunities, new hopes...
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Year A, Ninth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday July 30, 2023)
When the deceiver gets deceived and yet God still works through it all, and when the small seed can grow enough to allow all the birds to rest, and when the yeast becomes alive and does its thing, and when nets catch all the fish, and when the old and the new are held together: THEN we can still...
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Year A, Eighth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday July 23, 2023)
In this week’s episode of Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G talk about pivot points in one’s life, how realising that you are seen can change everything, and how in being seen we can humbly allow God to make changes that open us up to the fullness of our humanity; opening ourselves up to the...
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Year A, Seventh Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday July 16, 2023)
Amazing things happen when our ego gets out of the way… In this week’s episode of Between 2 Sundays, join Mark B and Mark G as they delve into surrendering, learning how to listen, letting God have their way in our lives, and why trading stew for a birthright (and even making the stew in the…
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Year A, Sixth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday July 9, 2023)
This week we continue in Genesis and consider what happens when we leave things up to God; try and follow Paul’s logic in what he does and what he doesn’t to do; and sit with tax collectors and sinners, eating and drinking just like Jesus did. What does this all have to do with our lives and...
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Year A, Fifth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday July 2, 2023)
This week we encounter Abraham and Isaac walking up a hill, a Psalmist struggling up a mountain, Paul pushing us up towards living through a lens of goodness, and Jesus moving us to allow ourselves to be received by whomever it is no matter what. Join Mark B and Mark G as they scale this week’s...
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Year A, Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday June 25, 2023)
If you feel for any reason that you have been pushed to the margins, to the edge, to the outer, or excluded in any way, this week’s readings have something to say to you. And to those of us to might be consciously or unconsciously doing the pushing, this week is a week for intent listening to the...
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Year A, Third Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday June 18, 2023)
We all like to think we have faith. But when the rubber hits the road, what does faith actually look like? Follow Mark B and Mark G from Sarah’s whispered laugh to Jesus’ instructions for mission via a Psalm of thanksgiving and Paul on what comes of suffering, and listen in as they discover how...
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Year A, Second Sunday After Pentecost (Sunday June 11, 2023)
This week’s set of readings are an amazing look at concepts in faith – what it is, who it’sfor, who has it, and where God finds it. From Abraham to Jairus the Synagogue Ruler, join Mark B and Mark G for an intriguing look at faith that might just change how you live it just a little bit… (The...
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Year A, Trinity Sunday (Sunday June 4, 2023)
This week is Trinity Sunday. As Mark B points out, often a day for avoiding the preaching roster. But in this episode Mark B and Mark G go beyond apple pie, H2O and clover leaf “explanations” to suggest a much more powerful way of understanding the seeming multiplicity of personas (yep, not a…
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Year A, Pentecost (Sunday May 28, 2023)
The coming of the Holy Spirit means so much to those who follow Jesus. Join Mark B and Mark G in this special Pentecost Sunday edition as they work through the readings for this coming Sunday and discuss how they speak to our task now the Spirit is well and truly with us. (The readings for Day of...
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Year A, Seventh Sunday of Easter (Sunday May 21, 2023)
The Ascension can be considered a Feast of the church that seems to centre on an “unlikely reality”. Whether or not you consider it a historical event, there is something about the ascension and the scene that surrounds it that should provoke us to stop “gazing at the sky”, and get ready to move....
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Year A, Sixth Sunday of Easter (Sunday May 14, 2023)
When it comes to God’s Kingdom, is the “in and out” language that we have become so accustomed to using in many parts of the Church useful? Or even Biblical? In this deep episode of Between 2 Sundays Mark B and Mark G talk about what it might mean to “share Christ” with the world; and if…
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Year A, Fifth Sunday of Easter (Sunday May 7, 2023)
What does it mean to be “in God”? To “see God”? To be the “people of God”? To “know God”? In this week’s episode of Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G get into the reality of a real world faith: what it is, what it isn’t, and what it means for how we live. (The readings for Fifth Sunday of…
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Year A, Fourth Sunday of Easter (Sunday April 30, 2023)
Post resurrection…what do we do now? In this weeks’ episode of Between 2 Sundays, Mark B and Mark G consider the readings for the fourth Sunday of Easter as a call to follow in the direction that the Kingdom of God is moving – a direction that will call us to embrace light and dark, good and bad....
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Year A, Third Sunday of Easter (Sunday April 23, 2023)
The revelation of Jesus in the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus opens up for us so many possibilities for faith, life, and for our own epiphanies. In this week’s episode Mark B and Mark G explore this revelation and our response to it through the lens of Cleophas and his partner, and...
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Year A, Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday April 16, 2023)
As the disciples move beyond the resurrection, we begin to see glimpses into a new way of living, seeing and being in the world. Join Mark B and Mark G as we take on a Jesus Hermeneutic in the way we see our lives, our world, and the Scriptures. (The readings for Second Sunday of Easter are Acts...
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Year A, Resurrection of the Lord (Sunday April 9, 2023)
What did resurrection look like? What does it look like now? Does it matter? And is there something about resurrection that can help us now; or is it something that is yet to come? In this week’s Easter Sunday episode of Between 2 Sunday’s, Mark B and Mark G talk physical, spiritual, light, and...
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Year A, Passion Sunday (Sunday April 2, 2023)
What is God like? The Passion narrative gives us a framework in which to see what God is like; and in doing so to see a picture of how it is we are to live. As we emerge from Lent into Holy Week, can we make a space to live like Jesus models; or will we let everything just go back to how it was...
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Year A, Fifth Sunday in Lent (Sunday March 26, 2023)
The resurrection of Lazarus creates an amazing foundation through which to understand the readings for this coming Sunday. Join Mark B and Mark G Between 2 Sundays as they consider whether Jesus “I Am” statement to Martha might just be an indication of the life in Christ that is available to us…
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Year A, Fourth Sunday in Lent (Sunday March 19, 2023)
Between 2 Sundays delves deeply into the world of sight, light, seeing, and what happens when our eyes are opened to the reality of God in and around us. (And just as importantly, what happens when we become blind to what God might be up to and we refuse to look outside our predefined…
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Year A, Third Sunday in Lent (Sunday March 12, 2023)
As we enter the next week of Lent, Mark B and Mark G talk wells, rocks, water, hope, identity and being seen. You may never have understood the Woman at the Well story quite like this… All in this week’s episode of Between 2 Sundays. (The readings for The Second Sunday in Lent are: Exodus 17:1-7…
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Year A, Second Sunday in Lent (Sunday March 5, 2023)
What does it truly mean to step out in faith? The example of Abraham and the wild shenanigans of The Wild Goose (aka the Holy Spirit) take centre stage in this weeks conversation in which Mark B and Mark G dodge the usual response to verses that we think we know well and look deeper to see where...
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Year A, First Sunday in Lent (February 26, 2023)
Lent begins, and we are immediately into discussions about the human condition. Good and Evil, Work and Toil, Original Sin and Original Goodness, and the incredible connections between Jesus and Moses during 40 days in the wilderness. All this and more with Mark B and Mark G in this week’s…
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Year A - Transfiguration Sunday (Sunday February 19, 2022)
Is the Transfiguration simply a monochrome, 2D event? Join Mark B and Mark G as they pick through the events of the Transfiguration and accompanying passages for Transfiguration Sunday, seeking for how this event isn't just a one time moment for Peter, James and John, but has implications right…
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Year A, Sixth Sunday After Epiphany (February 12, 2023)
So often it is said that following Jesus is hard. Maybe...or maybe it's all just a matter of finding our congruence with the way we're *meant" to live. In this episode, we spend time in four readings that really do epitomise the saying "It's not Rocket Science", and chew on the questions of what...
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Year A, Fifth Sunday After Epiphany (February 5, 2023)
Salt, light, fasting, distribution, and the mind of Christ. A compelling episode in which social justice and transformation of mind and spirit take the front seat. Join Mark B and Mark G for a light-omitting episode of Between 2 Sundays. (The readings for Fifth Sunday After Epiphany are: Isaiah...
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Year A, Fourth Sunday After Epiphany (January 29, 2023)
What does God really want? Join Mark B and Mark G in this week’s episode of Between 2 Sundays as they dig into the wisdom of foolishness, the truth about blamelessness, the reality of blessedness, and why 1000 rivers of oil just won’t cut in. (The readings for Fourth Sunday After Epiphany are:...
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Year A, Third Sunday After Epiphany (January 22, 2023)
What do lights in clay vessels and lights from Zebulun and Naphtali and lights in darkness and foolish crosses and nets and boats and dads being deserted have in common? They all feature (with relevance!) in this week’s episode of Between 2 Sundays. Join Mark B and Mark G for a compelling...
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Year A, Second Sunday After Epiphany (January 15, 2023)
It's all about remembering and calling this week. Join Mark B and Mark G in this week's episode of Between 2 Sundays as they ponder the himanity of forgetfulness, the purpose of remembering, and the patience required for hearing and responding to our calling. (The readings for Second Sunday After...
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Year A, Baptism of the Lord (January 8, 2023)
What is God, this Christ, this Spirit, like? Identity - not just of God, but of us as well - becomes a theme in the readings for this coming Sunday. What will they say about who God is and who you are in God? Join Mark B and Mark G for a discussion around what delights God in this week's episode…
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Year A, First Sunday After Christmas (January 1, 2023)
Gear up for the New Year. This week Mark B and Mark G reflect on the humility of Joseph, the saving presence in Isaiah, the sufferings of Jesus, and the quiet praise of the natural world, and realise how different this Kingdom of God is to the Kingdom of Herod. Join us for a paradigm shifting...
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Year A, The Nativity of the Lord (Sunday December 25, 2022)
Ho Ho Holy Nativity, Batman! What child is this indeed! The Christmas readings have us focussed on not only the incarnation, but in particular what John and the writer of Hebrews tell us about the nature of this incarnate Word of God. Light, grace, and truth are announced in the quiet and...
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Year A, Fourth Sunday of Advent (Sunday December 18, 2022)
"How long, O God" is a cry of people for generations. This week we begin to realise that unless we are prepared to see God in the seemingly "small" and "uneventful", we might miss that God has, in fact, arrived... Join Mark B and Mark G for this compellingly thoughtful and challenging episode of...
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Year A, Third Sunday in Advent (Sunday December 11, 2022)
Advent isn't just about waiting; it's about learning to hold our nerve in that waiting. In this "Now-But-Not-Yet- Kingdom of God", we hold an unusual space in which God calls us to hold patience as a key virtue. With Isaiah, Mary, and john the Baptist as our examples, join Mark B and Mark G as…
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Year A, Second Sunday of Advent (Sunday December 4, 2022)
Our adventures in Advent continue…and the Hope is getting BIGGER! There’s lions eating chaff and chaff being burned and cities to leave and wilderness to return to and justice, lots of justice. Rest in the liminal space with Mark B and Mark G as we contemplate the readings for Advent 2 in this...
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Year A, First Sunday of Advent (Sunday November 27, 2022)
Advent begins and this year we are in Year A in the Lectionary. As we reflect out of the readings from Reign of Christ Sunday and into this week's readings for the first Sunday of Advent, we get to talking about what we are waiting for, and what we should be doing while we are waiting. Which…
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Reflecting on the lectionary readings gone and the readings to come as we move the weekly texts from contemplation to action. Hosted by Mark Beresford and Mark Gladman.
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