Working the Lectionary is back! Your hosts, John Bottomley and Brendan Byrne have been away for a while, but they return in a new calendar year and a new lectionary year to discuss readings for Epiphany 4 and 5 2024.  For Epiphany 4, Brendan and John ponder the message about prophetic ministry from Deuteronomy 18 and what it might mean both for a church all-too-often co-opted by capitalism's metrics of investment in future profitability; while, for Epiphany 5, they discuss Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 9, and its message of liberation from economic ideology's demands for compliance and what it means to be a community of faith in the world today.

Theme music: Work Undone by Pearce Roswell. Available through Epidemic Music. Used under license. 



A NOTE ON THE AUDIO: Unfortunately, our primary recording technology malfunctioned during the recording of this episode, and we had to rely on backup technology to produce this episode. We have done our best to clean up the audio file, but it is of lesser quality than usual. Our apologies for the inconvenience.