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Deuteronomy 34:1-12: Unfinished Lives?: Proper 25A
I once heard presidential historian and biographer Robert Dallek give a lecture that was particularly focused on this then-latest book, a biography of John F. Kennedy titled An Unfinished Life. Not surprisingly, in the question-and-answer time following the lecture, a few people inquired about Dallek’s opinions related to the bevy of conspiracy theories that surround…
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Proper 25A
Preamble: Although this text comes to us through the ordinary three-year lectionary cycle, it also lands with particularly distressing and uncomfortable timing. As war rages over the lands once promised to Moses, I urge pastors to tread lightly, as I have attempted to do here. First, we acknowledge that the modern nation-state of Israel is…
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Proper 25A
How fitting it is that the life of Moses should end as it does! The man who spent all those days up on Mt. Sinai speaking to God face to face comes to the end of his days on Mt. Nebo speaking face to face with God. And the God who miraculously saved Moses at…
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Proper 25A
Few of us can read Deuteronomy 34 without getting at least a lump in our throat and tear in our eye. After all, Moses has dragged the Israelites, often kicking and screaming, out of Egypt, through the wilderness and to the doorstep of Canaan. Yet this Sunday’s Old Testament text reports that he never gets…
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