Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A

May 14, 2023

Thinking the Text by John Fairless

In Acts, Paul meets the local intellectuals on the hill outside of Athens known as the Aeropagus. Greek mythology held that this was the site of a godly council placing Ares, the god of war, on trial for the murder of Poseidon’s son (bad god, bad god!) The locals took up the idea and formed a sort of town council here, …