Rev. Kim K. Crawford HarvieArlington Street Church12 April,英文资料.pdfVIP

1 Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie Arlington Street Church 12 April, 2009 To Life! This is the year of the Unitarian Universalist Easter! I know, given our theology – or lack thereof – thats a hard concept to get your arms around, but Im here to convince you. Recently, I ate lunch with some esteemed colleagues of the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and United Church of Christ persuasions. I presumed that, unlike my Unitarian Universalist colleagues, who were sweating out their Easter sermons, this merry band would be so excited about the resurrection. Instead, there was no small amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth because this is the dreaded Year B. Or something like that. Heres what I understand: each member of my lunch gangs weekly sermons follows the directive of the lectionary, a collection of scripture readings appointed for worship on any particular Sunday. I cannot imagine being constrained by the lectionary; my friends cannot imagine being adrift without this three-year cycle of readings: cycles A, B, and C. “The ... A cycle begins at ... Advent ... near the end of those years whose number is evenly divisible by 3: ... 2001, 2004, 2007,” 1 and then the years follow in succession. Year As gospel readings are from Matthew; Year C is from Luke. But Year B – this year – is from the gospel according to Mark, a source of great consternation for some of my colleagues. Why? Okay, here comes the good news for UUs: Mark, notably the oldest of the gospels – the one written down about forty years after Jesus death2 – has what is known as “the short ending.” And what is the short