Dear Friends:

This issue of The Living Pulpit has a double focus.  First, we are focused on Epiphany through Palm Sunday.  The lectionary guide considers the various texts in the Revised Common Lectionary for this period in Year C.  I hope that this will be helpful in the crafting of sermons and the development of worship.

The second focus is on globalization.  LeAnn Snow provides a helpful reflection on Job as a resource for the dispossessed.  Luis Rivera-Pagan offers an article that seeks to develop a theology of migration.  Marian Ronan reviews a new book by Alyshia Galvez, Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants, which is focused on one group strongly impacted by globalization.  We have also included a variety of “links” to additional information about the nature and function of globalization in political, cultural, and economic terms.  Additionally, you will find a variety of quotes about this thing called “globalization.”

We are certainly impacted by globalization as was dramatically demonstrated in the recent economic collapse both here and around the world.  Do we or can we also have an impact on the reality of globalization.  How does this global reality affect our preaching and teaching?  Hopefully we can become more informed about this complicated world view and begin to understand the implications it presents from the simplest sermon on stewardship to the more complicated focus on community building and loving our neighbor.

We look forward to hearing from you about The Living Pulpit!  I can be reached at krussell@nyts.edu.  We are always looking for new contributors to our journal.

May God grant you blessings in this New Year.

Sincerely,

Keith A. Russell

Editor-in-Chief