On the Way.

Sidebars

Resources for the course

Standalone pieces that come up in more than one session

The sidebars are short essays on topics that recur through the course. Each one is anchored from the sessions where the question lands hardest, and stays on this page as a reference you can come back to.

Apocalyptic in Mark 13 What kind of writing is the "little apocalypse", and how should the church read it now?

Appears in 1 session

 Atonement and the ransom for many How this course reads Mark 10v45, and what it does not say

Appears in 3 sessions

 Demons in Mark First-century cosmology, the Gerasene "Legion", and how a liberal Methodist reading holds the language

Appears in 5 sessions

 Gospel as genre What kind of writing is Mark, and what difference does the question make?

Appears in 5 sessions

 Markan sandwich and framing pericope How Mark uses structure to make his arguments

Appears in 7 sessions

 Reading Mark with Myers How this course reads the gospel, and why

Appears in 6 sessions

 Reading the healings: disability theology and the gospel

Appears in 8 sessions

 Sidebars The empty tomb and Mark's ending What is going on at 16v8, why most scholars stop there, and how to preach it

Appears in 2 sessions

 The Jericho road and the pilgrim economy Why Bartimaeus is at the gate, and what the cloak meant

Appears in 1 session

 The messianic secret Why does Jesus keep telling people to be quiet, and what changes at Jericho?

Appears in 6 sessions

 The Methodist Way of Life Four commitments, four reflections, every session

Appears in 1 session

 Translation choices in this course Which Bibles, why, and what the hybrid does

Appears in 1 session

 Women in Mark The thread that runs through, and where it lands

Appears in 6 sessions